Headquartered on the outskirts of Paris, the French capital, France Football magazine is a combination of two six-storey independent office buildings, which look quite contemporary and have a silver-white and aqua-green exterior that is easy to think of football-related affairs.

Paris is known as the 'City of Romance', and living in Paris and working in period buildings in silver-white and light green tones makes people think of the word 'romantic' even more.

But some people are not romantic.

In a conference room on the third floor of the headquarters of "French Football", everyone sitting in the seat had a sad face, and the middle-aged man who presided over the meeting in the center had a serious and scary expression, his name was Belros Mollet.

Berros-Mollett is the editor-in-chief of France Football and the head of the French Football League department, and his original job was to select the French Footballer of the Year, and his daily work also includes collecting information about French league clubs, checking the information submitted by French football signing scouts, conducting a series of ability evaluations of players who play in the French league, compiling relevant reports for publication in the magazine, and so on.

Last year, Belros-Monitor was 'promoted'.

Maybe it can't be called a promotion, but it just adds a job, that is, to concurrently serve as the selection of the 'Golden Ball', the original head of the 'Golden Globe' selection, editor-in-chief Paca Ferredo was laid off by "French Football" because Zhen Shaolong refused the Golden Ball Award last year, which had a huge impact on the prestige of "French Football".

Internally, the position of editor-in-chief of "French football" has risen to the top, and there is basically no room for further improvement.

Belros-Mored, however, was not happy.

"French Football" knows that this year's 'Golden Ball Award selection is a hot potato, in February last year, Zhen Shaolong's rejection of the Golden Globe Award incident passed, and they decided to do this year's work: no longer put Zhen Shaolong on the list of candidates.

This is the way it is.

The 'Ballon d'Or' has been selected for decades, and there have been people who have rejected the Ballon d'Or in the past, and "France Football" will put those who refuse to be included in the list of 'Ballon d'Or candidates' for life.

Soon.

After May, France Football found that it was not possible.

Because Zhen Shaolong's performance is so good!

In May this year, Newcastle United won the Premier League and the Champions League, plus the League Cup in February, Newcastle United won the title of 'Treble', Zhen Shaolong is the biggest contributor to Newcastle United's Treble, he has won many personal honors, including the Premier League's top scorer, the European Golden Boot, the Champions League Golden Boot and the Premier League's best player, "World Football" selected the world's best player, and so on.

When the whole season ended, Zhen Shaolong won more than a dozen individual awards, large and small, he swept all the possible awards, was recognized as the best player last season, and was even recognized as the 'world's No. 1 striker', his performance overshadowed other stars, such as Messi, C-Ronaldo, Xavi and other stars, can not be compared with Zhen Shaolong at all.

Zhen Shaolong just performed a little better than others, and "French Football" didn't care at all, but his performance was really much better, and he won so many personal honors and broke several goal records, "French Football" has to care.

"French Football" discussed a question internally: "What will happen if Zhen Shaolong is not included in the list of candidates?" ”

"What will happen if the Golden Globe Award is not awarded to Zhen Shaolong?"

There is only one conclusion --

The influence of the Ballon d'Or will be greatly reduced, because they will not select the best players in Europe and even the world, and the existence of the Ballon d'Or will lose its meaning.

So what's the point?

"No one will pay attention to the Ballon d'Or in the future, because the World Footballer of the Year, the best player in the world award is more just!"

"When the Golden Globes lose their justice, no one cares."

"Ordinary fans won't think about it, it was Zhen Shaolong who voluntarily rejected the Golden Globe Award, they will think that our selection is meaningless, and the Golden Globe Award will lose its meaning in the future."

That's where France Football suffers.

Now the distressed has become Belros Morett, he was forced to take over the selection of the 'Golden Globe Award', and the selection of the 'Golden Globe' is also progressing smoothly, and in the end, Zhen Shaolong has a crushing score of 478 points, ranking first among the candidates without suspense, while Messi, who ranks second, has a score of 233 points, and C-Ronaldo has only 170 points.

Zhen Shaolong's 478 points are very amazing.

According to the Ballon d'Or selection rules, qualified judges will select five players out of 30 candidates and rank them, with the first place receiving five points, the second place being four points, and so on, with the last one receiving one point.

This year, the number of judges was 96, and the theoretical maximum score of the candidates was 480 points.

Zhen Shaolong got a score of 478 points, that is, there were only two judges, and Zhen Shaolong was listed in second place.

Zhen Shaolong's 99.58% vote rate has surpassed that of 1984, when Platini (98.64 votes), who won 128 votes out of 130 votes, breaking the record of the Golden Globe Awards.

Belos-Monitor looked at Zhen Shaolong's score and felt very helpless, but he was hindered by a question: "Zhen Shaolong won the Golden Globe Award with a record-breaking number of votes, the news can be announced, but the other party rejects the Golden Globe Award, what should I do?" ”

Last year's Golden Globe Awards had already been rejected by Zhen Shaolong.

The influence of "French Football" is huge, they can't accept the Golden Ball Award and be rejected again, and Zhen Shaolong's influence is also very huge, and even said that the number of fans who know Zhen Shaolong is definitely many times more than the number of people who know "French Football", ordinary fans don't care about "French Football", but they will support Zhen Shaolong.

If Zhen Shaolong rejects the Golden Ball Award again, it will put the 'Golden Ball' and "French Football" in an embarrassing situation.

Now Belros-Mored's job is to avoid that situation, and they have to discuss a plan to get Zhen Shaolong to accept the Golden Globe.

"What should I do?"

Berros-Moret may not be paying attention, but in fact they have already made a move.

When Zhen Shaolong returned to Madrid, the first call he received was related to the 'Ballon d'Or', the call was from Alice, "An editor-in-chief of France Football contacted me and wanted to know if you would accept the Ballon d'Or this year? ”

"Accept the Golden Globe?"

Zhen Shaolong had just arrived in Madrid, and his mind was a little uncontrollable, he didn't think about it at all, "Let's talk about it when I go back, I want to think about it." ”

Alice took his words as a rejection, "Okay, I'll help you refuse." ”

"Huh? Good. ”

Zhen Shaolong didn't care after hearing it, he refused the Golden Globe Award last year, and it seems that it is nothing to refuse again this year, and he has no good impression of the Golden Globe Award.

In fact, Alice thinks from the perspective of business and influence, and thinks that Zhen Shaolong's rejection of the Golden Globe Award is very good, and Zhen Shaolong's refusal of the Golden Globe Award last year brought many benefits, and his fame has become greater.

Sports media all over the world are reporting this news, and for a star, an increase in fame is equivalent to an increase in commercial influence, and his income will naturally increase a lot.

Of course.

Refusing it this year will certainly not be so beneficial, and it will be difficult to become world-class news again.

So Alice didn't care very much either.

Zhen Shaolong didn't care too much about the Golden Ball, and went home to rest directly after getting off the plane, but he didn't expect to meet Real Madrid's manager Baldano at the door.

There are two other people around Baldano, one is a Football Association official in La Liga, and the other is an editor from France Football whose name is Brown.

No doubt.

The reason for their arrival was Brown.

Baldano's face still has to be given, Zhen Shaolong invited a few people into the living room, and after a few words of greeting, Brown also directly explained his intentions, "We hope you can accept the Golden Globe Award." ”

Zhen Shaolong frowned and listened, he is not a stubborn person, it doesn't matter if he accepts the Golden Ball, as long as there is no similar thing last year, the official "French Football" lowers its profile, and he can also push the award with the water.

But...... No good, huh?

Because he rejected the Golden Globe Award last year, the Golden Globe Award is already a chicken rib for him, and it feels a little weird to accept it again this year, and if he doesn't accept it, he will be considered normal by fans.

Zhen Shaolong couldn't think of a reason to accept it!

Waiting for Brown to explain the difficulties of "French Football", Zhen Shaolong has not yet spoken, Rena took the initiative to serve as a spokesperson, "I'm sorry, what difficulties in "French Football" have nothing to do with Zhen, and accepting the Golden Ball Award is not beneficial to Zhen." ”

Brown didn't know what to say.

Before Brown came to Madrid, Belros-Monitor also made a special explanation, asking him to explain the difficulties of "French Football", and by the way, he used his relationship to persuade him, he found the manager of Real Madrid and the officials of the Spanish Football Association, and they all followed, but they were already giving face when they came, and it was impossible to help persuade Zhen Shaolong.

It's still the same......

That doesn't do them any good.

Now Zhen Shaolong's assistant also makes sense, the Golden Globe Award is a huge honor for other players, but Zhen Shaolong refused once, the Golden Globe Award is chicken ribs for him, and accepting the Golden Globe Award again is a bit of a submission, only disadvantages, no benefits.

"I wouldn't have agreed to it otherwise!"

Brown thought depressedly.

After another pleasantry, Brown had no choice but to get up and say goodbye, his job in Madrid failed.

Baldano didn't leave, he stayed to talk about the recent things in the club, cared about Zhen Shaolong's state, and then whispered, "Hold on, refuse the Ballon d'Or, don't promise them." The club will support you! ”

"Why?"

Zhen Shaolong felt a bit of conspiracy, he always felt that Baldano was not a good person.

Baldano smiled mysteriously, "You'll know in a few days, it's right to keep refusing anyway, don't agree to anything!" That's good for you! ”

“…… All right! ”

Zhen Shaolong reluctantly agreed, he still couldn't think of a reason, but refusing was his original intention, and it didn't matter if it was good or not.