Full-level pass, please call me the speaker of the Three Lions

Chapter 418: The Left and Right Guardians of Emperor Lin? The Week of Red Devil No.

As the only two players in the club selected for the Ballon d'Or, Manchester United congratulated Ling Feng and Ibrahimovic on their official website and social media as soon as the Ballon d'Or list was announced.

Compared with Da Fengxian, who has been selected for the Golden Globe Award shortlist many times, Ling Feng's selection is more noteworthy.

Because this is the second consecutive year that this handsome English guy has been included in the Ballon d'Or shortlist.

Moreover, he still holds a small record, that is, the youngest candidate on the Golden Globe Award shortlist!
Although he is still not as old as superstars such as Owen, Rooney, Ronaldo, Messi and others who were selected for the Ballon d'Or shortlist.

However, in this era of "Mero and Ronaldo are permanent, but the third man is ever-changing", he is the only player born after 1995 to be selected for the Ballon d'Or for two consecutive years!

This is definitely no small achievement!

This is the first man of the new generation, the hope of the Three Lions, the future Ballon d'Or winner, and the strongest active player in England and the Premier League!
As the highest individual honor award in football, the announcement of the Ballon d'Or shortlist is accompanied by a lot of attention and traffic.

From the United States' "New York Times", Spain's "Marca", Italy's "Torino Sports Daily", Germany's "Kicker", to the United Kingdom's "Times" and "Guardian" and other authoritative media from various countries, they have all carried out special reports on the Golden Ball award list.

It also lists the detailed information, personal data and group honors of each selected person.

Many media have also made predictions for this year's Golden Globe Awards rankings.

As the first Ballon d'Or after the merger with the FIFA World Player of the Year was cancelled, this year's Ballon d'Or will be voted on by professional football journalists from all over the world.

The biggest favorites to win the Ballon d'Or this year are still Messi and Ronaldo.

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But comparing the team honors won by the two, Ronaldo has a much greater advantage. He not only led Real Madrid to win the Champions League, but also helped Portugal win the European Cup for the first time in history.

Although Messi has La Liga and the King's Cup in his hands, he still has no national team honors. The missed penalty shootout in the America's Cup final caused Argentina to miss the championship again.

Even Messi's personal image is more popular and favored by the media.

However, a Champions League title and a European Cup title are enough to end the suspense!
Of course, all media predicted that Ronaldo and Messi would be the top two in the Ballon d'Or.

In the context of the "Messi vs Ronaldo dispute", the choice of the third place is what the fans can use their imagination to choose.
European Golden Boot winner Suarez, UEFA Champions League runner-up and European Cup runner-up core Griezmann, and Premier League best and European Cup Golden Boot winner Ling Feng are all under consideration.

It is worth mentioning that in all media ranking predictions, Ling Feng entered the top five!
This is enough to prove that in the past season, as the absolute core of Leicester City and the Three Lions, his outstanding performance both in the club and the national team has won unanimous recognition from the media.

Finally, The Guardian concluded that if Ling Feng eventually makes it into the top five of the Ballon d'Or, he will be the second active player after Rooney to make it into the top five of the Ballon d'Or after a lapse of five years!

And he is only 21 years old!
In the eyes of most people outside, this list of 30 people for the Golden Ball Award is almost the 30 people with the best performance in football in the past year.

Of course, this Golden Globe Award list cannot satisfy everyone.

It seems like every award selection will be controversial.

Some people would think that some players should not be selected; some people would also think, how could some players not be selected!
At least in the eyes of Manchester United and Leicester City fans, not to mention others, Kante is 100% qualified to be included in the 30-man shortlist for the Ballon d'Or!
As an absolute main force of Leicester City, he helped the Foxes win the Premier League and Europa League titles historically, and also reached the final of the European Cup with the French team.

Even Lori, a runner-up goalkeeper, was selected. Why couldn't Kante, who performed well in both the club and the national team last season and is now recognized as the best defensive midfielder in the Premier League, be selected? !

However, in the opinion of insiders, Kanter's eligibility for selection does not mean that he will definitely be selected.

On the one hand, defensive players have a natural disadvantage when it comes to selecting major individual awards;
Secondly, he has only been famous for a short time, and his reputation is not well-known, and public relations has not created any hype for him.

In addition to Kante, there are stars such as Real Madrid's Benzema, Arsenal's "thigh" Sanchez, Tottenham's Premier League Silver Boot Kane, etc.
However, there are only thirty spots on the list, and some people will be left out.
For Ling Feng, being selected for the Golden Globe Award shortlist was expected and there was nothing to be too excited about.

Even after returning to Carrington base the next day, his teammates and staff from the club congratulated him, but he just looked nonchalant.

This appearance also aroused Lingard's curiosity.

While doing warm-up exercises on the training ground, Lingard, who usually liked to follow Ling Feng, whispered quietly:
"Man, you're on the Ballon d'Or shortlist! Why don't you look like you feel anything?"

You know, the Ballon d'Or is the highest pursuit of every professional player's life.

Even being selected for the preliminary shortlist is a great honor.

Lingard dared to swear in his heart that if he could be selected for the Golden Ball Award shortlist, he would be so excited that he would not be able to sleep all night.

Not to mention I can’t wait to share this news with my family, friends, and even the whole world!
Hearing Lingard's question, Ling Feng responded casually while doing warm-up exercises:
"What's the big deal? I was selected last year. What's more, with my performance last season, being selected was expected. There's nothing to be too excited about."

"But, this is the second consecutive year that you have been selected for the Ballon d'Or. Aren't you happy at all?"

"I am happy, but this is recognition of my performance on the field, and I deserve it. When I really win the Golden Ball, maybe..."

"Before that, even if you rank second, you're still a loser! Isn't it?"

Ling Feng's words made Lingard immediately feel Ling Feng's ambition.

While he and other post-90s players were still dreaming of being selected for the Ballon d'Or shortlist one day, Ling Feng's goal had already been set on the golden ball that represents the best in the world!

Then I think of myself as the only one who has been consecrated by Ronaldo. Even if I can't compete for the Golden Ball Award like my mentor (apprentice) and disciple (disciple), I will win it.

You also have to be ambitious and set your goals higher!
So, Lingard's eyes changed and he made up his mind immediately!

After the morning training, during lunch, Lingard suddenly found Ling Feng.

"Hey man, can I ask you to do me a small favor?"

"You said."

"Can you please tell Zlatan for me and take a picture with me and post it on social media?"

Looking at the serious Lin Huang, Ling Feng blinked and asked:

"Why do this?"

"I want to motivate myself to improve! I hope that one day I can be selected for the Ballon d'Or shortlist like you and Zlatan!"

It was obviously to show off, but in Lingard's mouth, it became "motivating myself"

However, Ling Feng, who saw through Lin Huang's little thoughts, did not expose him. Instead, he raised his eyebrows and readily agreed to his request!

Immediately afterwards, Ling Feng stood up, found Ibrahimovic, and explained the situation to him.

Under Ling Feng's language art, Ibrahimovic really thought that Lingard just wanted to learn from himself and Ling Feng, which was also very

So, the three of them took a group photo in the locker room.

After the photo shoot, Ibrahimovic patted Lingard on the shoulder and made a personal joke:
"Young man, you have found two very good role models to learn from!"

“If you want to learn how to score goals and assist, just look at how we two do it!” Hearing this, Lingard immediately nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, expressing his agreement:

"That's that."

After completing this photo, Lingard immediately uploaded the photo to his Twitter account and wrote:
"The Ballon d'Or shortlist, what a great achievement! Let me introduce them to you, they are my role models! @Zlatan @Lingfeng"

Sure enough, it was just as Lingard expected.

As soon as this photo was released, it immediately attracted a lot of attention.

Especially after Ling Feng and Ibrahimovic both liked the post, it brought him a large number of fans and followers of the two.

In fact, when Ling Feng saw this photo on social media, he almost spit out the water in his mouth.

Lingard was in the middle, with his arms folded across his chest, looking cool.

Ling Feng and Ibrahimovic were on the left and right respectively.

It seems that Ling Feng and Ibrahimovic, the two superstars selected for the Golden Globe Awards, are like Lin Huang’s left and right bodyguards!

What’s even funnier is Lin Huang’s comment section.

I have to say that Lin Huang’s fans and followers are all talented people.

All kinds of jokes and memes are readily available:

"Jesse (Lingard) is getting better too. He even got a photo taken with the two superstars on the Ballon d'Or shortlist!"

"Shocked! After Cristiano Ronaldo, Jesse Lingard has once again been blessed by two superstars, Ling Feng and Ibrahimovic!"

"That's nonsense! It was clearly because of being teammates with Lin Huang that Ling Feng and Ibrahimovic were selected for the Ballon d'Or shortlist!"

"Yes, yes, what the above person said is correct!"

"Your Lin Huang is infinitely rampant!"

As Manchester United's funny guy and social media expert, Lingard is very active on the Internet because he is very keen to share the team's daily life with fans and followers on social media.

In his social media, besides himself, you can even see all the players of Manchester United's first team!
It is worth mentioning that in addition to Lin Huang wanting to take advantage of the traffic, the US Internet giant Amazon also took a fancy to Ling Feng’s influence in British and even European football, and sent an invitation to Ling Feng.

They plan to closely follow his daily life as the Red Devils' No. 7 throughout the week, allowing the public and fans to see the daily life and private appearance of the first of the new generation of British football off the pitch, revealing the real and unknown side of professional players.

Starting this year, Amazon has begun to increase its investment in original content.

The first work in the "All or Nothing" series of sports documentaries was released this year, with the NFL team Arizona Cardinals as the protagonist.

Once launched, it won the love and wide acclaim of North American football fans.

The cooperation with Ling Feng, the first of the new generation of European football, is obviously to expand the breadth of the field, extending from the relatively niche rugby to the more popular football.

With Ling Feng's current high popularity in European football, it will definitely greatly enhance their influence in the UK and even Europe, and they can also test the market for players' personal documentary shorts.

After carefully understanding the plan and content of the shooting, Ling Feng readily accepted it.

Just by shooting a personal documentary short film of less than fifteen minutes, you can earn five million US dollars!

No one would refuse such a generous price.

Amazon also attaches great importance to this year's youngest Golden Globe nominee.

In order to accommodate Ling Feng's personal schedule, Amazon specially dispatched a professional filming team to fly across the ocean from Seattle, USA to Manchester, UK.

Of course, in addition to the players themselves, Amazon also obtained filming permission from Manchester United.

For Manchester United, the greater the influence of Ling Feng, the new Red Devils No. 7 and the team spokesperson, the higher the team's commercial sales will be.

The filming team will follow Ling Feng in real time for a week, recording every detail of his life off the court.

The name of the short film is called "The Week of Red Devil No. 7"

. . .

10 month 26 number.

At seven o'clock in the morning, Ling Feng, who had just woken up, was visited by the Amazon filming team.

Facing the camera, Ling Feng smiled slightly and greeted the filming team:
"Good morning, guys! Are we going to start shooting now?"

"That's right. Just do your thing according to your daily schedule and interact with the camera occasionally."

"Fully understand!"

So, under the camera, Ling Feng came to the open restaurant and began to enjoy the breakfast prepared for him by his private chef.

His personal chef and bodyguard followed him from Leicester City to Manchester.

While eating, Ling Feng was also introducing his breakfast to the camera, explaining what it consisted of.

After breakfast, Ling Feng went to the garage, then drove his black Land Rover directly to his workplace, Carrington Base, under the full video recording of the filming team.

Of course, short film shooting is just a small spice in his life.

When playing for Leicester City, Ling Feng also experienced being followed by a documentary.

Soon, Ling Feng, who was so absorbed in training, forgot the existence of the camera.

However, the filming team can't follow him to the training ground and train with him.

In order to enrich the material, the filming team shot some training clips and waited until the training was over before finding Manchester United coach Mourinho.

They wanted to get the evaluation of Ling Feng from this world-famous coach.

After understanding the other party's intention, Mourinho just touched his chin, thought for a moment, and then faced the camera and made an unexpected comment:

"To me, he's a monster!"

(End of this chapter)