The Era of Emerald

() As the three most popular candidates for the European Ballon d'Or winner this year, all the reporters who got the ballots are having a headache whether to choose Batistuta or George Weah, or one of the former Inter Milan troika Klinsmann, after all, these players have performed very well this year.

Originally, 1 was not a major year, so the performance of the players in the European Champions Cup often became the basis for the judges to vote. If you look at it this way, then Ajax deserves to be the No.[-] in European football this year. The Golden Globes should also focus more on this traditional Dutch giant.

However, under the spoiler of Zhuang Mingge, a traveler, Ajax was dismantled a year in advance, resulting in the performance of many of their players in the second half of the year was very unsatisfactory. Only Kluivert and Davis reached the level expected by the fans. There is also Seedorf who played for Sampdoria, but they did not perform very well in their respective clubs-Kluivert's light was completely overshadowed by his teammate Weah, and Davis arrived He is still sharing playing opportunities with Kripa and others, and Seedorf’s Sampdoria is currently not even in the top four of Serie A... This makes the Ajax players completely rejected by the judges Excluded from this year's Golden Globe winners.

In this way, as a newly promoted Fiorentina, who won the Serie A and European Cup Winners Cup double crowns, entered the field of vision of the judges. After all, such outstanding results cannot be ignored by any reporter. Batistuta, the best shooter, has become one of the popular candidates for the Golden Globes.

As for Klinsmann and George Weah, these two players do not have any championship titles to win this year. The reason why they can become popular candidates is more due to their outstanding performance in various competitions . "Golden Bomber" first scored 21 league goals in the Premier League, and then returned to China to join the league champion Bayern Munich. This season, he also scored repeatedly in the Bundesliga. Such an excellent performance made Klinsmann a natural choice. One of the favorites.

The reasons for Weah's selection are basically similar to those of Klinsmann, but there is one thing that the Liberians have to overwhelm Klinsmann, that is, Weah still has a golden boot in the European Champions Cup last season, Batistuta It was also the Serie A Golden Boot last season, and Klinsmann, who did not have the Golden Boot honor, inevitably fell behind in the competition of several shooters.

In addition, as the only European player among the three favorite candidates, Klinsmann was considered by many discerning people in the football circle to miss this year's European Ballon d'Or. The reason is simple. This year's European Ballon d'Or For the first time, the scope of its selection has been expanded, from simply only European players can participate in the election to all players who play in Europe are eligible to enter the shortlist for the Ballon d'Or.

In this way, the new Golden Globe winner must be awarded to non-European players as compensation for their predecessors who missed the Golden Globe because of their nationality.

So in this sense, the more significance of choosing George Weah is not that he really performed better than other stars on the court, but as the first "enrollment expansion" of the European Golden Globe Awards, The organizer "French Football" naturally wanted to show its importance to non-European countries.If Africa, a football backward region, has a European Ballon d'Or winner this year, then the influence of the European Ballon d'Or will naturally spread to the whole world because of this result.

Therefore, as one of the representatives of African football in Europe, George Weah, who has performed outstandingly throughout the year, naturally became the top choice.

Although Batistuta also has significance in this regard, if he is elected from a traditional football power, he will be inferior in influence. After all, it is not too much for an Argentine or Brazilian to receive such an honor. Strange thing.

Therefore, although Batty seems to have an advantage from a purely competitive point of view, the possibility of Weah coming from behind cannot be ruled out.

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Some people may ask, since Zhuang Mingge cares so much about the selection of the European Ballon d'Or, why didn't he care about the World Footballer launched by FIFA?

Sorry, what is that?Zhuang Mingge said that he really doesn't like the unreliable thing selected by FIFA, so naturally he has no interest in caring...

After all, the selection of the World Footballer is made through the votes of the head coaches and captains of national teams all over the world. The biggest loophole in this is the uneven level of voters.Voters from many small football countries lack the ability to grasp the dynamics of the football world, and the selection is often more about fame than strength, which makes many stars who performed very well back then return with hatred because of their inferior reputation.Moreover, in the selection process, the candidates introduced by the head coaches of many national teams often make people dumbfounded.

For example, in 1993, Chinese player Gong Lei was nominated as the World Player of the Year. The person who recommended him was the head coach of the French Tahiti national team. The reason for nominating Gong Lei is also quite simple. That is, Gong Lei won the top scorer in the French Tahiti League with 36 goals that season. Therefore, the head coach of the country thought that Gong Lei was the best player in the world, and a big joke was made in the end.

Moreover, the hysteresis of information was clearly seen in the selection of the World Footballer of the Year. The winner of the European Ballon d'Or in 91 was the French priest Papin. At the same time, he also reached the final of the Champions League that year. He himself completed the Ligue [-] Golden Boot four times in a row. To the year's European Ballon d'Or.

However, in the selection of the World Footballer of the Year, the final winner was the German Matthaus, nothing else, just because of his outstanding performance in the Italian World Cup the previous year, many coaches in remote areas still think that Matthaus was still the best player in the world in 91, which led to Papin's tragedy...

You know, in the second half of 91, Mateus suffered a serious injury and was absent from the game for several months. After his comeback, his performance was also very average, and he was completely incomparable with Papin at that time!

Moreover, there are a total of fifty players on the shortlist for the European Ballon d'Or, while the shortlist for the World Footballer of the Year is only five. Only five players?The officials and lords of FIFA have given too few choices? !

Based on the above reasons, Zhuang Mingge is not very interested in the selection of the World Footballer of the Year. All he cares about now is the upcoming Golden Globe Award Ceremony.