What ball king, call me ball god

Personal honors in the football world, I didn’t mention them before, but now, the most important are only three individual awards, UEFA European Player of the Year, FIFA World Player of the Year and the Golden Globe Award of French football!Among these three awards, a topic that has been discussed by football circles and fans for a long time is which award is more important, the Golden Globe Award or the World Footballer.

The World Footballer of the Year Award was originally established in 1982 as the "World's Best Player" selection jointly organized by FIFA and the International Federation of Football History and Statistics. In 1991, FIFA began to independently operate the award, which was also renamed "World Footballer".Generally speaking, "World Footballer" refers to the award after the 1991 restructuring.

The Golden Globe Awards have a longer history, since 1956 there have been selections for the Golden Globe Awards.

So many people think that the Golden Globes have a longer history and a heavier weight.

However, there are also different opinions that since 1991, the World Player of the Year has been independently operated by FIFA, and the main body of the Golden Globe Awards is the "French Football" magazine under the French media "L'Equipe".Compared with the latter, it is clear that FIFA is more authoritative and just.

Although FIFA has also caused many scandals, its impartiality is still much stronger than that of a newspaper.This is the point of view of one class of people.

Whether it was the "World's Best Player" in 1986 or the "World Footballer" in 1991, the scope of selection was initially focused on the whole world.Although European players have the most awards, followed by South American players, so far no players from other regions have won awards, but in all fairness, it is true that the level of football in these two regions is higher.But having said that, the World Footballer award has been selected from players all over the world from the very beginning, at least it seems to be a more open award.

The Golden Globe Award, between 1956 and 1994, only selected players of European nationality. In 1995, the scope of selection was expanded to all players who played in the leagues of UEFA member countries. In 2007, it was opened to all players in the world. All professional players in the league.So before 2007, the Ballon d'Or was also known as "European Footballer".

Compared with the Golden Globe Awards, the selection scope of the World Footballer is larger, but later the Golden Globe Awards are also relaxed to the world. Currently, the scope of both selections is the whole world.

Then there is the difference in the rules.

The selection rules of the World Footballer of the Year have undergone 3 changes. At the beginning of its establishment in 1991, the head coaches of the national team members of FIFA voted. Each coach had 3 votes, but they could not vote for their own national team players.

In 2004, the selection rules of the World Footballer of the Year changed. All national teams and captains have voting rights. They enjoy 80% of the votes, and the remaining 20% ​​are in the hands of the International Professional Players Union.

In 2016, only 25% of the votes were left for the coaches and captains of each national team, which together accounted for 50%. More than 200 media outlets around the world had 25% of the votes, and the remaining 25% belonged to fans all over the world.

In this way, the FIFA World Player of the Year selection rules are very diversified, at least in terms of ballots, it combines the opinions of many parties.

Although the selection rules of the Golden Globes have been changed several times, they are always in the hands of the media.

Before 2007, only the judges invited by the organizer of "French Football" had votes, and almost all the judges came from major European media. After 2007, all countries entering the World Cup finals have voting rights, but the judges are still composed of journalists.So after 2007, China, which once entered the World Cup, also had a reporter who could vote. He was Luo Ming, a reporter from Football Monthly.

But no matter how it is reformed, the voting rights of the Golden Globes are always in the hands of reporters. In other words, the Golden Globes are an award selected by the media.

Although it seems that both awards are the top individual awards in the football world, it seems that it is difficult to distinguish which is stronger and which is more important.

But in 2010, FIFA took the initiative to find the team newspaper to negotiate the merger.

The Ballon d'Or and the World Footballer of the Year were briefly merged. From 2010 to 2015, the two parties jointly held 6 selections, in which Messi won 4 times and Ronaldo won 2 times.However, due to the differences in operating philosophy and selection rules between the two parties, the two sides still have differences in the end.

The name of the award at that time was called the FIFA Ballon d'Or.

Although the FIFA World Player of the Year selection method and voting method are more reasonable, in the football world, it is obvious that the Golden Globe Award is more important.

But now, although the weight of the World Footballer is slightly worse than the Golden Globe Award, the two are not far behind.

The awards ceremony on September 9 is just around the corner. Lin Kedi, Ten Hag, De Ligt and De Jong went to Zurich, Switzerland together.

And this time, CCTV Sports also sent reporters to the scene in Zurich, Switzerland, which shows the importance it pays.

However, at the scene of the UEFA awards ceremony just a month ago, no domestic media reporters were sent to the scene.

In fact, the main reason is not that UEFA's best player in Europe is not important, of course it is important. After Lin Kedi won this award, the best player in Europe is even more important.

The main reason was that although all the odds showed that Lin Kedi was ahead, it was not confirmed after all, because Messi's momentum was also very high at that time, so CCTV Sports naturally chose to be conservative and did not go to the scene to be on the safe side.

Now it seems that this is a bit too conservative.

And after the previous mistakes and misjudgments, this time the award ceremony in Zurich, Switzerland, not only CCTV sent people in China, but basically all the famous sports media sent people to come.

Lin Kedi arrived in Zurich, Switzerland at noon on the 23rd.

In the afternoon, I received an interview invitation from CCTV.

Lin Kedi originally wanted to rest, but after thinking about it, he accepted the invitation.

Ali also came to Zurich, Switzerland with him.

Ali went to contact CCTV to book a time and place for the interview.

It was finally set at 3 pm, in Lin Kedi's room.

Before the interview, Lin Kedi called his parents at 1 o'clock, and then went to the restaurant to have some food.

While eating in the restaurant, I met Van Dyke.

"Virgil! Are you here too?"

"This is the hotel assigned to us by FIFA. It should be no surprise that all three of our candidates should be here."

"I mean, you eat so late, too?"

"Oh—I was on the phone in my room just now."

"The steak here is not bad, you can try it."

"Really? Thank you for the recommendation."

Lin Kedi and Van Dyke were not friends after all, so after some politeness, Lin Kedi went straight back to the hotel room.

He was going to take a nap, waiting for the start of the CCTV interview. (end of this chapter)