I started with Torres, to revive German football

Chapter 320 Golden Ball
After the Champions League group stage, Guardiola gave Zhao Jinge a few days off so that he could happily attend the Ballon d'Or awards ceremony, along with Kevin De Bruyne. Manchester City's twin stars have won this year's His perfect performance in both club and national team was selected into the final list of the Ballon d'Or!

For this reason, Zhao Jinge and De Bruyne will also miss the No. 11 round of the Premier League in December.

On December [-], before the start of the Premier League match between Manchester City and West Bromwich Albion, Mendes looked at the young man in front of him at Manchester Airport who he had not seen for a few weeks, but whose strength seemed to have improved a lot, and said happily:

"Oh, if it had been before, I wouldn't have believed it to be true!
This time last year we signed in Wolfsburg and now we’re about to get on a plane to Paris!

Oh my God!This is simply a miracle!
Even Cristiano only received this highest honor after working hard at Manchester United for several years, and how many years have you been here? !
In less than two seasons, you are about to reach your peak! "

Mendes embraced Zhao Jinge enthusiastically. With Zhao Jinge's outstanding performance, Mendes, who has deep connections, was convinced that this year's Golden Globe winner would be the young man in his arms!
This young man who has just grown up will soon become the youngest Golden Globe winner in the history of the world!

Become Mendes’ most important player in the future, bar none!

"Before the results are announced, anything is possible. Maybe it's not me who wins the Golden Globe this year?!"

Zhao Jinge also hugged Mendes and said in a joking tone.

"That's incredible! Maybe the next day, angry German and Manchester City fans will storm the French Football headquarters, and then give a pair of sunglasses to everyone who voted!"

"Jorge, if your words get out, you will offend a lot of people!"

"There's nothing terrible about offending a blind man like that. Anyway, I'm confident that this year's Golden Globe Award will definitely be you!"

Mendes smiled brightly, and Zhao Jinge didn't say anything more. The two of them boarded the private jet that Mendes had prepared.

For more than a year, Mendes has really done his best, whether it is in terms of his own food, clothing, housing, transportation or the reception of relatives and friends. Mendes and his team are all helping. Not to mention the nearly [-] endorsements he currently has. Got it!
Mendes has roughly calculated that these endorsements and advertisements will only be a cut of Zhao Jinge's off-site income from next year. Even if it is calculated as a minimum 5.00% share, it will bring him at least 3000 million US dollars per year. Income, Zhao Jinge is a real cash cow for Mendes!
The top three players in football, endless potential for the future, and a long career have made Zhao Jinge the most valuable player and his endorsement fees have risen accordingly.

This is just Zhao Jinge’s starting price!
Everyone knows how much gold this money tree will produce in the future.

The private jet has arrived.

The two got on the plane, Zhao Jinge took the time to make a phone call, and Zhao's father and mother also set off.

As for De Bruyne, he returned to Belgium with his wife and newborn son after the Champions League group match against Dynamo Kyiv. Their family, along with De Bruyne's parents, would fly directly from Brussels to Paris.

After landing, Mendes got the news that Cristiano Ronaldo, the player he once valued most, would not come to attend the ceremony, even if he was in Paris.

Zhao Jinge shook his head, it didn't matter, and he and Mendes got into the car picked up by the organizer. After arriving at the hotel to meet his parents, Zhao Jinge rested early, thinking about the awards ceremony tomorrow night, and fell asleep.

The next night, the grand ceremony is about to begin.

Scenes like the ceremony dinner are not unfamiliar to Zhao Jinge. When he first debuted more than a year ago, he might have been a little nervous, but now, he is more comfortable with it.

With everything ready, Zhao Jinge was just waiting for the moment to receive the award.

Although everyone knows that there is no suspense about this year's goal award.

But the process still has to go.

First, it was officially announced that the ranking of the 30 candidates for the [-] Men's Football Ballon d'Or Award will be announced one after another.

Players walk the red carpet ceremony.

Zhao Jinge held his head high, the Golden Globe Award is the largest and most authoritative award in football on earth, and its authority and sense of honor are unquestionable.It is voted on by the national team's head coaches and players.

According to the rules set by "French Football", each judge can list five names, and the players listed will receive 5~1 points in order of ranking.

Accumulate the scores of each player, and the player with the highest score will win the "Golden Globe Award" of the year.

It was born in 1956. Before 1994, the selection targets were limited to European players. After 1995, it was expanded to players playing in Europe.

In 2007, the scope of selection of players was expanded to the whole world, and in a sense, it really competed with FIFA's "World Footballer" selection.

In 2010, the "French Football" Golden Globe Award and the FIFA "World Player of the Year" two awards were combined into one, and it was designated as the FIFA Golden Globe Award.

This year's Golden Globe Award is the first year that the two major awards, the Golden Globe Award and the World Footballer Award, have been merged and presented separately again, so it is particularly eye-catching.

According to many media reports, Zhao Jinge's probability of winning the award is well-deserved. However, this has also attracted the dissatisfaction of many other fans. After all, even if he is far ahead, he cannot win everyone's love.

Even in Zhao Jinge's hometown, Wolfsburg fans are still controversial because of Zhao Jinge. They are dissatisfied that the reason why Zhao Jinge won the award is because Zhao Jinge did not stay in Wolfsburg for a few more days. Year.

Of course, in the face of undoubted strength, all remarks are insignificant. Judging from the achievements of all players on the court this year, Zhao Jinge is absolutely unrivaled!

When it was announced that Zhao Jinge had won this year's Golden Globe Award, the applause at the award ceremony reached its peak. Everyone stood up collectively to express their most sincere respect to the young man.

This emotion lasted until the presenter raised his tone and invited Zhao Jinge to come on stage to accept the award, and then something changed slightly.The emotions in everyone's eyes are different.
On the green field these years, the guests who are qualified to appear here will always be a little disdainful or indifferent to other players except Messi and Ronaldo.

But Zhao Jinge, who debuted for less than two seasons, has now become the new Golden Globe winner, and some of them must hide this emotion very well.

When Zhao Jinge took over the Golden Globe Award from the host, his brain was roaring and he couldn't help himself with excitement.
After giving a slightly stiff acceptance speech, Zhao Jinge stood on the stage, smiling a little at a loss.
Deserved
Judging from the voting results subsequently disclosed, Zhao Jinge received more than 50.00% of the vote!

This is a terrifying rate of votes.

How scary is it?
Messi and Ronaldo's combined vote share is only 40.00%!
Zhao Jinge won the award in one fell swoop, with Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi and Teacher Ding ranking second, third and fourth respectively.The guests looked at Zhao Jinge, who was talking eloquently but obviously too young.

I can't help but think of the series of tactics and means adopted by every football practitioner in the past two seasons in response to the commotion caused by Zhao Jinge's outburst, and I can't help but feel a little chilled.

The guests with different thoughts looked at the young-looking new Mr. Golden Ball on the stage and felt awe when they thought about the changes in the past year.

"Thank you to the German national team, Wolfsburg and Manchester City.

Thanks to Mr. Heijing, Mr. Pep and Mr. Loew for giving me the opportunity to play.

Thank you to my parents and my teammates.And who is Mr. Mendez, and other people who have helped me. "

Zhao Jinge pursed his thin lips and took a deep breath. The light made him squint his eyes, and he could faintly see the tender eyes of the people he had chosen in the audience looking at him.

"I am so proud to receive such a major award. Honestly, at the time when I decided to go down the path of professional football, I never imagined that one day I would receive this award. Thank you to everyone in my career. It is a It's been a long road, but I would like to say that my journey is not over and they must continue to endure."

"Everyone has his own dream. Every player who wins this golden ball has his own story. Of course I don't want this to be my last golden ball. Yes, this is my attitude."

"Maybe I am not a very mature player yet, but I am a persistent pursuer and I have many bigger goals that have not been achieved.

I hope that when it is time for me to retire, everyone can compare my performance in the past year to my entire career, and they will not say the phrase 'the peak is at the debut'. "

Zhao Jinge nodded and smiled and left. Cheers and applause erupted throughout the venue.

The Golden Globe Awards ceremony ended in such a warm atmosphere. Everyone was shocked that Zhao Jinge could win this award at the age of 18, but he had already done enough psychological preparation.

Just when Zhao Jinge and De Bruyne attended the Ballon d'Or award ceremony together, Manchester City, which was missing two core players, also thrillingly defeated the team that drove the bus at the Etihad Stadium with a score of [-]-[-] at their home court. West Brom.

In the first half, Manchester City's most threatening thing was after Stones stole the ball, Yaya Toure's long pass counterattacked directly behind the defense. Mahrez drove straight in and scored alone, opening the scoring for Manchester City.

But after the goal, the referee blew his whistle to indicate offside.

This made everyone at Manchester City very dissatisfied. Guardiola also protested loudly on the sidelines, believing that this was not offside at all.

During the halftime break, Guardiola specifically showed the game footage to the referee, especially the replay of the live TV broadcast, and it was indeed not offside.

What can be done?

After changing sides and fighting again in the second half, West Brom's physical exhaustion reached a certain level and began to slow down the offensive, while Manchester City gradually improved, but Sterling missed another excellent single-handed opportunity.

The game time passed quickly, and both sides were making substitutions and adjustments.

Guardiola's Manchester City used up three substitutions, and so did the opposite West Brom. Seeing that the West Brom coach could score a point, he went crazy and substituted three defensive players in a row in the second half!Two defensive midfielders and one central defender!
Just when everyone thought that Manchester City would get a draw at home, zero to zero.

At the 808th minute of the game, Manchester City launched a quick counterattack. Captain Kompany made a diagonal pass, and Mahrez used his speed to get behind the opponent's full-back.

One of the opponent's central defenders quickly rushed out to defend Mahrez, and the remaining two central defenders teamed up to double-team the forward Dzeko.

But at the critical moment, Mahrez suddenly knocked back, and David Silva made a pass from the outside of the right corner of the penalty area.

Although the opponent's central defender grabbed the position, he made a mistake when he kicked off the ball and kicked the ball empty!
Dzeko took the lead, blocked the position with his body, blocked the West Brom defender behind him, and hit the goal from close range.

One to zero!

Manchester City relied on their opponents' mistakes to survive the danger and continue their winning streak!
But such a result is definitely not satisfactory for Guardiola and Manchester City. They are fighting on multiple fronts, have a dense schedule, and the two most important players are not yet in the lineup.

As we near the middle of the season, even Manchester City, which has a strong army, is struggling a little bit and is in urgent need of new troops to return!

Early the next morning after the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, Zhao Jinge said goodbye to his parents and flew back to Manchester with De Bruyne.

That afternoon, Zhao Jinge, who had just returned from the training base at the Etihad Stadium, had already started his recovery training.

This is Zhao Jinge's attitude. Yesterday he had a golden goal, but today he is still a player who practices hard.

The assistant coach saw Zhao Jinge walking to the training ground and whispered something into Guardiola's ear. Guardiola also reacted and turned around and smiled at Zhao Jinge, then walked quickly towards Zhao Jinge and stretched out his hand. Looking at the young man standing in front of him, he smiled slightly and said:
"Congratulations, Zhao!"

Guardiola knows that the reason why Zhao Jinge won the Ballon d'Or is definitely not because of Guardiola and Manchester City's achievements, but because of the mutual achievements between Zhao Jinge and them.

"Thank you, boss!"

Zhao Jinge looked at Guardiola in front of him and replied excitedly. His throat was a little dry. He had said thank you too many times in the past 24 hours.

For the Golden Globe Award, he has taken a lot of leave from the club and Guardiola, but the attitude of Manchester City and Guardiola is also very clear that they can put the Golden Globe Award first!

After hugging the two men again, Zhao Jinge walked towards his teammates who could no longer hold back and wanted to boo.

Guardiola put his hands on his hips, looked at the young man in front of him who was surrounded by other teammates with great interest, and shook his head.

He has seen too much about Zhao Jinge's ability and performance. He is not only shocked by this young man's ability and achievements so far, but also impressed by his talent and hard work!
(End of this chapter)