This player is not professional

Chapter 280
This voting method of FIFA has been criticized as unprofessional, which is in sharp contrast to the voting method of the Ballon d'Or Award of "France Football" that year.

Some people may find it strange that they are both head coaches and captains of the national team, so why are they unprofessional?
The professionalism of players is reflected in their football skills, but not necessarily in their comprehensive understanding of football.

It can be said that the captain of a national team may not understand the general trend of world football as well as a Chinese fan who cannot even kick the ball well.

Not to mention the head coaches and captains of those small and weak football countries.For example, how much do you expect the head coach and captain of the Tonga national team to know about world football?Their football intelligence may rely more on media reports, so the stars who often appear in the media are naturally the people they are most familiar with, such as world-class superstars like Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

When it's time to vote, they don't know anything about the other candidates and only vote for names that look familiar to them. Of course, people like Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo take advantage.

FIFA currently has 410 member countries, and the national team head coaches and captains of each member country have voting rights, which equals 53 eight voting qualifications.And what about the media jury here at the Golden Globes?Only [-] authoritative media outlets are eligible to vote.

Even if all 53 media reporters chose Sneijder, it would still be no match for the 410 votes cast for Messi.

So under such a weird voting rule, the best player in 2, Sneijder, was humiliatingly not even included in the top three...

Before the final results were released, the top three alone caused great controversy and doubts.

And when the final results came out, almost all the media were dissatisfied - you said that Sneijder did not enter the top three and was not qualified to participate in the final competition, then okay.Let's look at the remaining three people. Xavi or Iniesta, who led the Spanish national team to win the World Cup, should be more likely to win than Messi and have higher qualifications, right?
But no, Messi won the final FIFA Ballon d'Or!
When the results were announced, Messi himself was surprised and surprised - he really didn't think he was qualified to win the award.

In the World Cup year, the performance in the World Cup has a high reference value. Messi's performance in the World Cup cannot be compared with Xavi and Iniesta. He did not score a goal in the World Cup in South Africa and led the team The Argentine national team was also beaten by the German team. How can such a performance be worthy of the Ballon d'Or?

But who said he was the most popular world-class star in the media in recent years, and was even called the third world champion?
He has high media exposure and his name frequently appears in various reports. Anyone who knows football knows him as Messi, which gives him an advantage in voting...

In this way, Messi controversially won the highest award among individual player honors that year, the FIFA Ballon d'Or.

Since there is no competition for the European Ballon d'Or and FIFA, Messi was the top professional player in the world that year.

This is definitely unfair. In terms of Messi's strength, he is certainly one of the best players in the world, but based on his performance in 2, he should not win this award over Sneijder.

But many years later, when people look up the winners of the 2 Ballon d'Or, they will only see Messi's name, and many people may not know the story behind it.They will take it for granted that Messi won the Ballon d'Or that year because he performed the best that year and was officially recognized.

Such a thing can happen to Sneijder, the core player of the Netherlands, a strong football country, so why can't it happen to Lin Yi, the core player of the Chinese team, a weak football country, three years later?

You know, Sneijder still won the Triple Crown, but Lin Yi didn't even win the Triple Crown.

The only thing they can hope for is the authority and impartiality of the European Sports Media Alliance reporters, hoping that they can make choices that are consistent with their professional evaluation and authoritative status.

But some people are worried that at this juncture, will there be the possibility of racial discrimination?Racial discrimination on football fields has always been very serious. Such problems also exist in the media dominated by Europeans and Americans. They are only more prejudiced against China.Think about the London Olympics just past year. It was simply a teaching example of European and American media’s discrimination against Chinese sports.

Will some reporters think that Chinese players are not worthy of this honor and do not want to see Chinese players take a share of the football project, so they choose to vote for Messi or Ronaldo?
When the results are about to be announced, Chinese fans who have had low self-esteem in the football world for a long time are particularly sensitive and fragile...

However, Lin Yi himself is quite confident. After all, without the influence of the World Series, his performance last season was perfect enough.

The club's two most important honors were won, and his personal performance was also perfect. He scored 37 Premier League goals, directly breaking the Premier League scoring record.

You know, after Alan Shearer scored 31 goals in a single season, and before Lin Yi entered the Premier League and broke the former record, the Premier League produced many super shooters, such as Thierry Henry and Ruud Van Nistel Rui, Cristiano Ronaldo, Luis Alberto Suarez, etc., among them, the most goals scored in a single season only tied Alan Shearer's record.

Lin Yi broke the Premier League scoring record in his first season in the Premier League. Although it was a bit behind Ronaldo's 48 goals, Lin Yi also had [-] direct assists.

After all, Lin Yi has transformed into a midfielder last season. With his personal performance and club performance not bad, Lin Yi believes that professional sports media will definitely vote for him.

What he is more worried about personally is the Golden Globe Awards at the end of the year. He wonders if something will happen again.

If it was Cristiano Ronaldo or Messi who won the Champions League, they would definitely not worry and they would definitely get the award, but that is not necessarily the case with Lin Yi. This is not the first time that FIFA has done this kind of thing.
The UEFA Champions League group draw ceremony for the 2015-2016 season and the European Best Award Ceremony for the 2014-2015 season were held at the Grimaldi Forum in Monte Carlo, Monaco.

And this awards ceremony and lottery ceremony is also the one that the Chinese media came to Monaco to report the most.

Monaco has hosted many sports events, not to mention the annual UEFA Champions League draw and awards, the most famous is the Formula One Grand Prix Monaco race.

But no matter which sports event it is, there is not as many Chinese media as this time.

Even if the Chinese media pays close attention to the annual Champions League draw, they will not take pictures of so many people to report on the spot.Some of them cooperate with European sports media, and they can get relevant reports and content through these cooperative media.Some of them just steal other people’s information directly from the Internet.

This time, the Chinese media gathered in Monaco uncharacteristically, all for Lin Yi.

CCTV even filmed a set-up team specifically to film Lin Yi.

This matter was also quickly communicated and coordinated with Lin Yi after CCTV was selected into the final three-person list.

Because of the good cooperative relationship before, the communication went smoothly.

In addition to being unable to enter the venue to film, CCTV could follow the entire process and use their "third eye" to faithfully record Lin Yi's entire participation in the award ceremony.

Lin Yi asked the other party jokingly: "Aren't you afraid that after such a big battle, I won't win the prize?" The other party said very seriously: "We have prepared two plans."

Although Lin Yi has already entered the Griermadi Convention Center, his photos and videos on the red carpet are still being circulated on the Chinese Internet, and everyone is hotly discussing his performance on the red carpet for the first time. .

"He is worthy of being the star who has appeared in European and American media the most. Look at his calm face. These are just small scenes!"

"Nonsense, my Brother Yi is the most popular star among the paparazzi. The number of newspapers published in a year can crush any Hollywood star!"

"Indeed, I have read too many entertainment pages. When I looked at it, I thought I was walking on the Oscars red carpet!"

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The red carpet activities of the stars are still going on. Messi and Ronaldo both appeared on the stage one after another. There are still screams at the scene. When Messi appears, the screams are the loudest.

From the moment he got off the car, Messi was screamed and cheered by the fans present.

The other Barcelona players walking with him have all become Messi's best green leaves at this time. Messi walks in the front and they follow behind.

Let Messi alone enjoy the cheers and adoring eyes of those fans.

Along the way of the red carpet, the camera flashes in the hands of reporters on both sides almost never stopped, far surpassing any star and big-name coach that appeared before.

From this point of view alone, Messi is already the best player in football today.

Seeing this scene, the Chinese reporters at the scene couldn't help but mutter: "Messi still has the greatest influence. The cheers are not on the same level as Lin Yi just now..."

"What are you afraid of? Fortunately, this time it was a reporter's vote, not a vote by the national team head coach and captain, otherwise I wouldn't be here to report. Lin Yi would definitely be a green leaf for others."

"Even if you don't get No. 1, being in the top three is historic... Well, I mean the FIFA Ballon d'Or. Being in the top three shows that Lin Yi is already among the top three in world football in terms of popularity. A character…”

But on the Internet, Chinese fans don't care much about the following red carpet stars, and everyone is looking forward to the final awards ceremony.

But no matter how concerned, they still have to wait patiently for all procedures to be completed.

After the red carpet session, everyone entered the conference hall, sat there, and waited for the UEFA Champions League draw to begin.

The draw for the UEFA Champions League group stage in the new season is the focus of everyone's attention every year, and this year is no exception.That is to say, in China, because of Lin Yi, everyone is more concerned about the final awards ceremony.

Before the start of the Champions League group stage draw ceremony, a retrospective short film of last season's Champions League final was played on the big screen. The short film reviewed Liverpool's Champions League trophy last season in the form of an art gallery. Lin Yi made many appearances in it.

The Chinese fans watching the live broadcast were very happy with this performance. Is it not worthy of one of the best players in Europe?
The final shot of the short film is the moment when the entire Liverpool team lifts the Champions League trophy.

After the screening of the short film, McNeil, who once led the Scottish Celtics to win the Champions League trophy, walked into the draw ceremony with the trophy in his hand.

Then the UEFA Champions League draw ceremony officially began.

The first draw guest is Portuguese legend and Champions League ambassador Luis Figo.UEFA Secretary General Infantino is the host of the Champions League draw. He first introduced the rules of the draw: 32 teams are divided into four levels and evenly divided into eight groups. The teams in the same group and the same league The teams will not meet.

At this time, Chinese fans also began to temporarily shift their attention away from the awards and devoted themselves to the drawing ceremony.They have to go through this process anyway, so they might as well take a closer look. They also want to know which group Liverpool will be assigned to this season.Last season, Liverpool was assigned to the group of death. Unexpectedly, they turned the group of death into "other people's group of death." They broke out at the top of the group, defeated the defending champion twice, and went all the way to win the Champions League.In this way, the group of death seems to have given Liverpool good luck...

Everyone thinks that Liverpool, as the defending champion, will definitely be the seeded team.

But it turned out not to be the case.

According to UEFA's tiering rules, they rank 32 teams based on their European war points in the past five years. The top eight teams are the seed teams, and the ninth to No. 16 teams are the second tier. The team...and so on.

So even though Liverpool won the Champions League last season, they have only participated in four seasons of European competition in the past five years and not once in the Champions League. Therefore, they do not have enough points in the European competition to become a top eight team. No seeding team.

The defending champion has become a second-tier team and may be assigned to the group of death again...

This rule made Liverpool Club quite dissatisfied. Before coming to Monaco, Klopp talked about this rule in an interview with the media. He believed that it was unfair to the defending champion, and this equal division method would also make the level of the Champions League seed teams vary. If the teams are not even, it is inevitable that there will be some teams that make up the numbers.As long as you steadily participate in the Champions League, you can become a seeded team based on qualifications.

He believes that last season's league champions and Champions League champions should be the seeded teams, regardless of their past European war points. Only with such rules can they be worthy of the name "European Champions League".

After all, this is the Champions League, not the "European War Points League".

This matter has indeed aroused extensive discussion in the European media, but the Chinese media and fans are more concerned about whether Lin Yi can win the award, and do not pay enough attention to this aspect and ignore it.

Now seeing that Liverpool is not a seeded team, many Chinese fans in front of the TV are surprised.

(End of this chapter)