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Chapter 447 FIFA Most Improved Award
At the scene of the Zurich Opera House, Yin Jun still has a lot of acquaintances.In addition to several teammates at the Manchester United club, there is also the former teammate of Beckham, as well as opponents in the Premier League such as Owen, Gerrard, Lampard, and Drogba.

In fact, Yin Jun, who has entered the third season of playing for Manchester United, has played against most of the candidates who attended the awards ceremony. Even some of the candidates who have not played against each other are not too unfamiliar with each other.When Yin Jun entered the opera house, he greeted most of the people.

Every year, FIFA will make a theme for the award ceremony, but this is not a gimmick, but during the entire award ceremony, all performances will revolve around this theme.

The FIFA Awards Ceremony has been held for the 14th year. This year's theme is "The Combination of Football and Opera", so opera performances are interspersed between the various parts of the awards ceremony.

The ceremony was hosted by Ian Wright, the daughter of showbiz break-in and former Scottish superstar Dalglish.Football stars such as Beckenbauer and Bobby Charlton, former German tennis superstar Becker and other sports stars attended the awards ceremony, which was broadcast live from more than 130 countries around the world.

After a while of performances at the opening ceremony, FIFA President Sepp Blatter took the lead in giving a speech, followed by the relevant awards.

The first is the FIFA President's Special Award and the Fair Play Award.Blatter and Bobby Charlton presented the awards to the presidents of Haiti and the Brazilian Football Association respectively. On August 8 this year, the Brazilian team went to Haiti to play a peace match.

Afterwards, the two awards established for the first time this year were announced. Becker and Iranian star Ali Daei announced that Falcao, who has the same name as the former Brazilian superstar, was named the best indoor football player of the year.

Falcao was the best player and top scorer at the Indoor Football World Championships held in Chinese Taipei not long ago.Thiago took over the "E-Sports Footballer of the Year" trophy from FIFA Secretary-General Linxi and the first World Footballer of the Year Matthaus in 1991.

Interestingly, the fat Brazilian likes to use the French team and Henry most in the game.

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After the two newly born awards, the FIFA World Ranking Most Improved Award was presented, and the Chinese team won this award.

In 2004, the Chinese team participated in a total of 23 international games, but the teaching match against La Liga giants Barcelona was not included in FIFA's statistics.In the 22 games with FIFA points, the Chinese team remained unbeaten, with a terrifying record of 19 wins and 3 draws!
Especially in the 6 World Cup Asian qualifiers and 6 Asian Cup games, the Chinese team maintained a complete victory, and the ratio of goals scored was 50 to 6!

The outstanding record has allowed the Chinese team's FIFA points to rise steadily.At the beginning of 2004, the Chinese team had just entered the top 80 FIFA rankings, ranking 78th.And in the 2004 FIFA final ranking issued by FIFA tonight, the Chinese team has soared to the 20th place, second only to Japan in Asia, and Japan's ranking is just ahead of the Chinese team, ranking 19th in the world .Further ahead are the 18th Germany and the 17th new European Cup champion Greece.

Soared 58 rankings in a single natural year, and the Chinese team also created a new record.

In terms of points, the Chinese team has risen from 512 points at the beginning of the year to 701 points at present, a net increase of 189 points!
Compared with another moment, when China fell out of the top [-] in the world rankings, it won the Most Improved Award with a background of almost black humor. The Chinese team definitely deserved the award this time.

At least, the Chinese team is the only undefeated team in 2004.The rest, even if they are as strong as Brazil, have failed at least one game.

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The head coach of the Chinese team Alihan and the chairman of the Football Association both came to the scene and received the award at the same time.

Originally, the Football Association called Yin Jun before the award ceremony and asked him if he would go on stage to receive the award.

After all, Yin Jun is the captain of the national team and is also qualified to represent the team on stage to receive the award.

Yin Jun refused. After all, he had already received a call from FIFA. He would win this year's World Footballer, the most dazzling star tonight.Under such circumstances, there is no need to compete with Alihan and the chairman of the Football Association for this opportunity to make an appearance.

For Yin Jun's choice, Ali Han and the chairman of the Football Association are very happy.After all, as a footballer, being able to make an appearance on this world-renowned night is really an irresistible temptation.

If Yin Jun wants this chance to receive the award, it will be difficult for them to compete with Yin Jun, at least one of them will not be able to appear on the stage.Because Yin Jun's popularity and influence in China are too strong.

Amid the applause at the scene, the high-spirited Alihan and the chairman of the Football Association raised the trophy together.

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The program that follows is also known as the Brazilian Performance Stage.The Brazilian was named FIFA Team of the Year after receiving the Fair Play award and two new awards.

这是巴西队连续第三年领取这个奖项，而在近11年里，巴西队有8次夺得了这个奖项。仅有1993年的德国队、2000年的法国队和2001年的洪都拉斯抢走了三次奖项。

Originally, the Chinese team was also a strong contender for this award. After all, the Chinese team had a very good record in 2004 and was the only undefeated team.

However, in the end, the Brazilian team won the award by virtue of winning the America's Cup, as well as greater fame and influence.

Another contender for this award is the new European Cup champion Greece.

The Brazilian team deserved the award, because they not only won the America's Cup, but also lost only one game in 2004, and continued to hold the first place in FIFA. The advantages.

The penultimate award produced at the ceremony was Miss World Football.Platini was the presenter of the award.Prinz, the German women's football player known as the "bomber" of women's football, finally won the award again.Mia Hamm, who retired this year, won the silver medal, and the 18-year-old Brazilian rookie Marta won the bronze medal. She performed very well in the Women's U19 World Youth Championship not long ago.

Originally, Chinese players have always been strong contenders for this award.Women's football star Sun Wen once won the Miss Football of the 20th Century.In the selection of the first and second Miss World Football at the beginning of the century, she also ranked second and third respectively.

However, after the famous women's football player announced his retirement at the end of 2003, the Chinese figure faded out of the competition for this award.

After the three of Prinz left the field, the most exciting moment of the awards ceremony came, because the 2004 World Footballer of the Year was about to be born!

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