Chapter Seventy-Eight: From Now On, Be the World Footballer
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When Platini read out that the 2011 World Footballer of the Year winner was Chu Zhongtian, there was a burst of cheers in front of countless television sets in China. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
For football fans, this joy is even greater than Beijing's success in bidding for the Olympics...... Chinese football finally has a figure who can do it in world football, the World Footballer! European Golden Globe Awards! The best player in world football! Three honors in one, such honors have always belonged only to those world superstars!
"Chu Zhongtian is the World Footballer of the Year in the new year!!" Duan Bin, who broadcast the ceremony in Beijing, also shouted excitedly. "This is the highest individual honour in world football!"
The audience applauded thunderously, and in such applause, Chu Zhongtian stood up from his own actions, Casillas beside him patted him on the back, and Chu Zhongtian leaned over and hugged him when he passed C. Ronaldo.
Whether this is Chu Zhongtian's comfort to C. Ronaldo, or C. Ronaldo's congratulations to Chu Zhongtian, in short, this action can show the world that there is no contradiction between them.
After hugging his teammates one by one, and then hugging the head coach, Chu Zhongtian did not go directly to the rostrum, but turned around and went to Hoffenheim, where head coach Rangnick was nominated for the best head coach of the year, so this time he also came to the award ceremony.
After all, he was able to get the World Footballer of the Year, mainly relying on his results at Hoffenheim rather than Real Madrid, so Rangnick is his mentor who can get the World Footballer of the Year, and he has to thank him no matter what.
Chu Zhongtian walked up to Rangnick: "I have to thank you very much, Ralph. ā
Rangnick hugged Chu Zhongtian and whispered in his ear, "This is what you deserve, Chu!" You deserve it! ā
After the two of them embraced, Chu Zhongtian turned around and walked to the rostrum.
During the whole process, everyone in the theater hall stood up and applauded him.
This is the glory that the number one star in world football deserves in 2011.
Chu Zhongtian walked up to the podium, then shook hands with FIFA President Sepp Blatter, followed by UEFA President Michel Platini.
Just half a year ago, Platini also presented Chu Zhongtian with the Champions League trophy at Wembley Stadium. The course and result of that match greatly surprised Platini. Fortunately, Hoffenheim itself is also a team that advocates attack and has a pleasing style of play, otherwise if Mourinho wins the cup again, I really don't know what the expression on the face of this Barcelona fan who advocates offensive football and artistic football.
After shaking hands with Chu Zhongtian, Platini awarded Chu Zhongtian the Golden Ball trophy of the World Footballer of the Year.
The applause continued.
Chu Zhongtian took the trophy, looked down, and then walked to the back of the podium, ready to thank him.
The applause was reduced, and everyone sat down.
Duan Bin also stopped his previous sensationalism and prepared to translate on the spot - Chu Zhongtian would give a thank-you speech in English that most people could understand.
Chu Zhongtian looked down at the trophy and then put it aside.
He was about to speak, but noticed that the microphone was a little low, so he adjusted the position of the microphone.
Then he said, "I'm so grateful to everyone for giving me this award......
Duan Bin was listening intently, intending to translate on the spot, but he was suddenly stunned for a moment - he lost his usefulness, because Chu Zhongtian spoke his native language, Chinese!
It is not without Chinese who have accepted the FIFA award before and delivered an acceptance speech in the morning, but they all use English, the "universal language", and Chu Zhongtian only chose his native language, just like Messi spoke Spanish when receiving the award. Don't worry that the people below can't understand, there is simultaneous interpretation in the venue - there was no simultaneous interpretation in Chinese before, but now because Chu Zhongtian has become one of the candidates, simultaneous interpretation in Chinese is still provided.
āā¦ā¦ I have to thank the team I used to play for, Hoffenheim. I know why I won this award, and I still miss playing with them. It was Hoffenheim's team-mates and coaches who gave me this opportunity and I am very happy to be able to win the Champions League with them! ā
"I would like to give a special thanks to my coach at Hoffenheim Rangnick, who gave me the stage at Hoffenheim. I know that there have been many media who have treated him unfairly, but I would say that without him, I would not be where I am today. The biggest thing about a team is always the manager, not a player. "Chu Zhongtian is complaining about Rangnick. When I was in Hoffenheim, the media always said that Hoffenheim was Chu Zhongtian's one-man team, and Rangnick was actually useless, and whoever coached could go to such a result. When Hoffenheim is mentioned, everyone will only think of Chu Zhongtian, and as for who Hoffenheim's head coach is, no one cares...... Now Chu Zhongtian has publicly complained to his former head coach on such an occasion, which can be regarded as responding to some of the previous questions from the media.
The television broadcast gave a close-up to Rangnick, and the German "professor" sat in his seat, smiling, and even with a shy look on his face. Obviously, he was a little embarrassed that his apprentice praised him naked on such an occasion.
After thanking Hoffenheim, which is Chu Zhongtian's past tense, he began to thank himself for his present tense: "I would also like to thank the team I am currently working on, Real Madrid, where we are all united and everyone is working hard for the goal of winning the championship. I love the atmosphere. That's why I chose to come to Real Madrid and not any other team. I would like to thank my team-mates, the manager Jose Mourinho, the president of the club, Florentino, and Zizou who persuaded me to join Real Madrid. I know some time ago that I was going to leave the Bernabeu at the end of the season and I want to make it clear that I never wanted to leave here until I had enough results......"
"A special thank you to my family and wife, I wouldn't have been able to make it this far without them, in fact I almost gave up football in the first place, it was my parents and wife who encouraged me and gave me the opportunity to stand here today and express my gratitude to you."
After saying the thank-you speech, Chu Zhongcai began to say the real acceptance speech.
"I know it's quite historic for a Chinese to stand here."
There was a burst of laughter from below.
"I'm sorry, lady interpreting, I know it's a bit difficult."
Everyone continued to laugh.
"I think the fact that I'm standing here shows just how wrong those statements that yellow people aren't fit to play football are." As Liu Xiang said in an interview after winning gold in the men's 110m hurdles at Athens 2004, the yellow race can make breakthroughs in areas where whites and blacks dominate.
"That's right!" Duan Bin, who had been silent beside him and was an audience, suddenly shouted.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I love to win, I like to win, I love to ......," he said, holding up the trophy, "...... This one! I'll be back next year! Thank you! ā
In a burst of applause and whistles, Chu Zhongtian hugged Platini and Blatter again, and then was about to walk off the stage. Of course, he was stopped by Blatter, because there were still second and third places to go on stage to accept the awards, and then the three winners stood together for everyone to take pictures and show off their trophies.
Knowing this time, Duan Bin started to speak again: "This is the first time I have heard Chinese at FIFA's year-end awards ceremony, and I don't need a translator, it's really very kind...... I don't know when the next time I'll hear it, but I'm willing to believe what Chu Zhongtian said, and I'll come back this time next year......"
ā»ā»ā» In the end, the top three in the selection of World Footballer of the Year were Chu Zhongtian, Messi and C. Ronaldo, and the Portuguese still failed to defeat the Argentine this time, which may have something to do with his arrogance. Messi and Chu Zhongtian have similar results in the national team competition, Chu Zhongtian led the Chinese team to win the Asian Cup, and Messi led the Argentine national team to win the Copa America...... However, this is not the key reason for his victory and Messi's defeat, the key reason is the results of the Champions League, especially the Champions League final, which gave Chu Zhongtian and Messi the opportunity to compete head-on. Before that game, Messi was the number one man in the world, and there are few people in the world who can defend him one-on-one. But after that game, Messi was no longer the number one in the world, Chu Zhongtian had the upper hand in the duel with Messi in the final, and in the end, Messi was completely frozen, so that Messi could not get any decent opportunities on the field. The duel with Messi also included a penalty shootout, in which Chu Zhongtian saved a penalty shot by Messi.
Compared with Chu Zhongtian's performance in that final, Messi's performance was too bleak.
Chu Zhongtian was not as simple as containing Messi in defense, he also scored a goal to equalize, and turned into a substitute goalkeeper - this is the essence of the whole game, and everyone who has watched the Champions League final will be shocked by Chu Zhongtian's performance during this time. No one expected that a temporary cameo goalkeeper could do this, let alone a temporary cameo goalkeeper, even those regular goalkeepers may not be able to do him as well...... Coupled with the difference between the two teams, it is natural for Barcelona to win the Champions League, because in addition to Messi, they also have Xavi, Iniesta, Villa, Piqui and other stars, the overall strength is quite strong, even without Messi, it may not be impossible to win the Champions League.
But what does Hoffenheim have? Salihovic and Ibisevic are at most well-known stars in Germany, but they are still not enough to see in the entire European football world, they are only second-rate stars. Giant star? Chu Zhongtian doesn't count. Such a team that came out of the German countryside was able to win the European Champions Cup because of Chu Zhongtian. If there is no Chu Zhongtian, let alone the Champions League champions, it would be very difficult for them to even reach the final...... The difference in the strength of the two teams, in the end, the weak side won the championship, as the core of the team, Chu Zhongtian's role is more important and obvious, everyone obviously took this factor into account when voting - many people feel that charcoal in the snow is far more important than icing on the cake, it is much more difficult to lead Hoffenheim to win the championship than to lead Barcelona to win the championship, and it is human nature to sympathize with the weak.
Therefore, Chu Zhongtian finally defeated Messi and won the 2011 World Footballer of the Year, which is the best reward for Chu Zhongtian in the upcoming year.
The next day, a Chinese media outlet designed a well-received front page with a large photo of Chu Zhongtian standing in front of the microphone holding the World Footballer of the Year Gold Cup, and above the photo was the headline: "From now on, please call him 'World Footballer of the Year'!" ā
The headline was so devastating to Chinese fans that I later heard that this issue of the newspaper was sold out...... A lot of people buy it for collection. Because this is not a national professional sports media such as "Sports" and "Football", but a local comprehensive newspaper, it cannot be bought outside the local province. Therefore, Chu Zhongtian was elected as the World Footballer of the Year, and a group of people were born to sell this issue of the newspaper online for fans to collect, and the selling price was often five to ten times the original price.
I'm afraid these are things that no one thought of before...... ā»ā»ā» After Chu Zhongtian won the European Golden Ball Award, because the league was away, Chu Zhongtian did not get the opportunity to show his Golden Ball trophy in front of the home fans, but this has also become a good thing, because he can now show two trophies at home in one go - the European Golden Ball Award and the World Footballer of the Year.
After Chu Zhongtian won the World Footballer of the Year and the Ballon d'Or, Real Madrid now has three World Footballer of the Year and the European Ballon d'Or at the same time - Kaka won the World Footballer of the Year and the European Ballon d'Or in 2007, and C. Ronaldo won the World Footballer of the Year and the European Ballon d'Or in 2008.
There is currently only one Messi on Barcelona's side, who was crowned World Footballer of the Year and the European Ballon d'Or in 2009. In 2010 he was unexpectedly awarded the World Footballer of the Year, but that year's European Ballon d'Or went to Dutch midfielder Sneijder, who led Inter Milan to a treble.
However, Barcelona has historically been a team that has excelled in making the World Footballer of the Year and the Ballon d'Or. Romario won the World Footballer of the Year in Barcelona the year before in order to play in the national team and participate in the World Cup in the United States, he transferred to Barcelona, and the following year he won the World Footballer of the Year for his outstanding performance in the World Cup and excellent performance in Barcelona; The second is Ronaldo, who won the World Footballer of the Year in 1997, mainly from Barcelona, and also with his outstanding performance in Barcelona, he earned the nickname "Alien"; The 1999 World Footballer of the Year belongs to Rivaldo, and Rivaldo's main basis for winning the Copa America is his wonderful performance in Barcelona, in addition to his leading Brazil to the Copa America; Although Figo of the 2001 World Footballer of the Year was not in Barcelona when he won the award, he had already switched to Barcelona's sworn rival Real Madrid, but no one can deny that all his achievements and wonderful performances in football came from the teachings given to him by Barcelona; The World Footballer of the Year in 2004 and 2005 was Ronaldinho, all because he played for Barcelona, his personal technical style and Barcelona tradition blended perfectly, he showed the world his amazing talent, and in helping Barcelona return to the top, he also sent himself to the top of the world.
Real Madrid has several world footballers in its history, but they are more of the finished products bought directly by huge transfer fees. For example, Figo, Zidane, Ronaldo, Cannavaro, Kaka, and C. Ronaldo are all world footballers, but except for Figo, all of them have become world footballers before moving to Real Madrid, Zidane in 2000 was still at Juventus, and he became the world footballer purely because of the European Championship that year and the 1998 World Cup. Figo was already at Real Madrid in 2001, but before he moved to Real Madrid, he was already a world-class star, and it was a matter of course to win the World Footballer of the Year. Not to mention Ronaldo, the 2002 World Cup made him the World Footballer of the Year, but he was still playing for Inter Milan at the time, and only transferred to Real Madrid after the World Cup. Cannavaro won the World Footballer of the Year award in 2006 solely because of the World Cup title, and he also played for Juventus in the first half of that year, before moving to Real Madrid after Juventus was forced to relegate due to the phonegate scandal. Kaka won the World Footballer of the Year award at AC Milan in 2007 and Cristiano Ronaldo in 2008 for his crazy season at Manchester United. Now there is a new Chu Zhongtian, which has little to do with Real Madrid, and the Champions League title was won while wearing the Hoffenheim shirt...... However, Real Madrid will still be very happy to arrange for Chu Zhongtian to hold two trophies at home and meet the fans, whether they have cultivated it or not, at least now these footballers belong to Real Madrid.
On December 18, Real Madrid's last home game before Christmas, they played Vigo Celta at home. Real Madrid also specially arranged a ceremony for Chu Zhongtian - after the two teams played, they did not go directly to the court, but lined up in two teams at the exit of the players' tunnel. In such a sandwich welcome, Chu Zhongtian appeared with a trophy in one hand.
Seeing him come out, there was a huge cheer at the packed Bernabeu stadium.
The teammates and opponents standing on both sides also applauded.
This is dedicated to the new World Footballer of the Year and the Golden Ball.
It is what Chu Zhongtian deserves.
80,000 fans at the Bernabeu chanted: "World Footballer of the Year! Mr. Golden Globe!! ā
Chu Zhongtian raised the two trophies high at the same time in the cheers, which was the highlight moment of his career!
From now on, please call him World Footballer of the Year!
(To be continued)