UEFA has created the annual European Player of the Year, which is somewhat suspicious of competing with FIFA's Ballon d'Or.

After the merger of FIFA's World Footballer of the Year and the European Ballon d'Or in the French team newspaper, Europe is almost blank in terms of player selection, so it is only natural that UEFA launched the European Player of the Year award at the right time.

It's just that this is a bit of an eye medicine for FIFA.

However, at the end of the day, FIFA should have been used to this prickly prickly prickly for a long time.

To distinguish it from FIFA's Ballon d'Or, the selection process for Europe's best player award is divided into two rounds.

The first round of voting is based on the football journalists of the 54 member countries, each of whom submits a list of three players, and the three players with the highest scores are selected to enter the second round of voting.

This year, the top scorer was Ibrahimovic, followed by Cristiano Ronaldo and finally Manuel Neuer.

At this point, Yang Huan had to say with emotion that the goalkeeper was at a loss.

Otherwise, with the main goalkeeper of the world championship Neuer and the main goalkeeper of the Champions League champion, these two titles are enough to qualify for the best player in Europe.

It's also a pity to have Tony Kroos, who deserves a chance to win this award.

Unlike FIFA's Ballon d'Or, the second round of voting for Europe's best player was conducted through on-site electronic voting, with journalists in the first round voting selecting one of three people.

As for who it will be, no one can say for sure before voting.

This is also the biggest suspense in the selection of the best player in Europe.

Because of the live broadcast, UEFA also specially arranged the voting to be held after the draw ceremony.

This made Yang Huan have an urge to scold.

In the draw session, the first to be announced was the classification of the 32 teams.

Southampton, as the new Champions League champions, are in the first seed of the group stage.

Interestingly, Atletico Madrid and Benfica also belong to Pot 1.

It's really not that Yang Huan made a move, but because their points themselves are enough.

Basel of Switzerland moved into Pot 2 and Ajax in Pot 3, while Monaco and Belgium's Anderlecht and Sparta Prague, who had returned to the Champions League after many years of absence, moved into Pot 4.

The bracket is mainly ranked by European points, so there is no room for a little bit of cattiness.

But there is a saying that is very true, it is better to divide the grades well, than to draw lots.

Southampton was placed in Group G when they were grouped, and as a result, in the draw, the teams in the second pot were drawn Schalke 04 in the Bundesliga, the team in the third pot was drawn to Sporting Lisbon, and the fourth pot was drawn to Maribor in Slovenia, and the draw was not bad.

In fact, when it comes to the draw, there is a detail that is not much noticed.

Many people like to say that they are tired, which may be a little bit, but in fact, there are really not many options for lottery.

It's like Southampton, as a Premier League team, Manchester City in Pot 2 and Liverpool in Pot 3 can't be drawn.

The team in the second pot drew Schalke 04 in the Bundesliga, and Bayer Leverkusen in the third pot also failed to draw.

As for the fourth pot, among the eight teams, the really strong ones are Monaco and Roma.

But two out of eight choices, how big the probability is, can be imagined.

Atletico Madrid were also lucky enough to be drawn in Group A against Juventus, Olympiacos and Malmo.

Basel were more unlucky, although they were in Group 2, but they met Real Madrid and Liverpool in Pot 3.

On the contrary, Monaco, as the fourth pot, was a little unlucky, and even drew Porto, Zenit St. Petersburg and Bayer Leverkusen, which should be regarded as the luckiest team in the fourth pot.

As for Benfica, Shakhtar Donetsk, Athletic Bilbao and Borisov were drawn, and none of them were weak.

Ajax were unlucky enough to be in a group with Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain, and almost from the start they were aiming for third place in the league.

Looking at the eight groups, if 'bad luck' is said, the most unlucky must be Bayern Munich.

As the seeded team, Bayern Munich drew Manchester City in the second pot, CSKA Moscow in the third pot, and Roma in Serie A in the fourth pot.

As soon as the results of the lottery were announced, there was an uproar at the scene, and everyone was talking about it.

Not at all expected, tomorrow all the newspapers will be published, and it must be another conspiracy theory.

"Manchester City are really unlucky!"

Peter Kenyon shook his head and smiled bitterly when he saw the results of the draw.

Who's to say it isn't?

Yang Huan also smiled, "In the group stage of the Champions League last season, Manchester City also met Bayern Munich and CSKA, and as a result, Manchester City broke through and advanced from the group stage. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Huan laughed, "If it is according to the conspiracy theory, it should be that UEFA saw that last season was not to kill Manchester City, and this season has intensified, in addition to Bayern Munich and CSKA, there will be another Roma, if you don't believe it, you Manchester City will not die!" ”

Peter Kenyon also laughed, Young Master Huan's words really had a bit of a paparazzi flavor.

But it's right to think about it, such a bizarre lottery result is indeed easy to provoke reverie.

"It's a little harder, but with the strength of Manchester City, it should be no problem to break through from the group stage."

Manchester City, as a strong team in the Premier League, is indeed strong enough and has a strong lineup, if the group cannot qualify, then Pellegrini may have to leave class.

Yang Huan nodded, "Roma and CSKA can't stop Manchester City, the key question is whether they are the first in the group or the second in the group, which determines how far Manchester City can go." ”

Peter Kenyon is a supporter of this claim.

Don't look at the first group and the second group, it seems that there is not much difference, in fact, the difference is big.

According to the current rules, the second group will reach the knockout round of 16 and meet the group winners of the other groups.

And then let's see, who are the teams that won the group?

Real Madrid, Barcelona, Southampton, Bayern Munich......

Not to mention Manchester City, who can have the confidence to win when they meet these teams?

Therefore, in Yang Huan's view, the crux of Manchester City's current problem is not the team's competitiveness in the knockout round, but the ability to grab points in the group stage.

"However, it is also unfortunate to say that Manchester City has faced strong teams in the group stage in recent years." Yang Huan laughed a little gloatingly.

From Real Madrid at the beginning to Bayern Munich today, Manchester City has encountered a lot of rivals in the group stage.

Peter Kenyon also smiled slightly, "Actually, the main reason is that Manchester City lacks European experience. ”

"Yes, if they accumulate a year or two in the Europa League, go up in European points, and get into the Champions League, they will naturally not always be placed in Pot 3 and 4, then the draw for the group stage will be much better."

Theoretically speaking, the third and fourth gears are ironclad to meet Haoqiang, but the strength is just high.

Southampton, on the other hand, successfully defended the Europa League for two seasons and earned enough European points, so they had a certain advantage in the division of the bracket, and won the Champions League last season, so they naturally avoided other giants.

After the Champions League group stage draw ceremony, the award ceremony also continued.

Platini took the results of the reporters' votes and walked up to the rostrum with a smile on his face.

The UEFA president has always been adept at making every public appearance, which is perhaps the first essential element of a good candidate.

"I just got the results of the best player in Europe voted by all the journalists on the field."

Hearing Platini say this, everyone below suddenly had a heart plucked.

Yang Huan also followed with a solemn face, he was very concerned, who could win this award?

"The result is in my hands!" Platini smiled and raised the answer in his hand, which almost made many people at the scene spray, you girl, can you stop rubbing and go straight, okay?

Maybe it was the protest of many people below, or Platini's own conscience and decided not to drag the show anymore, anyway, he quickly turned over the results in his hand, smiled into the microphone and shouted, "The best player in Europe in the 2013-2014 season is ......"

Everyone below held their breath for a while, just waiting to hear the final answer.

“…… ...... from Southampton"

When Yang Huan heard this, his heart suddenly jumped, isn't Cristiano Ronaldo?

From Southampton, is it Neuer?

Looking at the past, the German door god is also excited now, and he must have thought it was him.

But the UEFA president, who was very undisciplined on the stage, changed his words, "...... Now playing for Paris Saint-Germain, Zlatan Ibrahimovic! ”

When he finished speaking, he burst out laughing, "Let's congratulate Zlatan on winning the best player in Europe!" ”

The audience was in an uproar.

Immediately after, there was an overwhelming round of applause.

Almost everyone stood up and applauded Ibrahimovic.

Ibrahimovic, who was sitting in the Paris Saint-Germain area, also stood up and hugged the management and teammates of Paris Saint-Germain around him to accept their congratulations.

After that, when he left the area and was about to walk to the front of the stage, he also ran to Southampton, took the initiative to hug Neuer and other Saints' teammates, and finally came to Yang Huan.

"Thank you, Young Master Huan!" Ibrahimovic gave Yang Huan a heavy bear hug.

"No, no!" Yang Huan was a little struggling.

Niang Xipi, can we stop trying so hard?

Ibrahimovic ran up to the podium with a smile and took the trophy from Platini's hand, and then looked at it for a while before walking to the microphone.

"Here, I must thank all the friends who supported and voted for me, thank my family, thank my agent, and thank all the people who helped me, but what I want to thank most is Southampton, and Master Huan!"

The scene once again erupted in thunderous applause.

Ibrahimovic has always felt cold and arrogant, often at odds with his old club, in Ajax, Juventus and Barcelona, but now, it is really not easy to take the initiative to thank Southampton.

It can be seen that he is really mature.

"I still remember that four years ago, when I was at the height of my career, I barely kicked a ball, and it was Young Master Huan who found me, and he told me, come to the saints, let's fight together."

Speaking of this, Ibrahimovich's face showed a smile of remembrance.

"At first I didn't believe it, you know, this kind of deception can only deceive children!"

Everyone suddenly fell for a while, I didn't expect this guy to have such a sense of humor.

"But, later, I believed!"

"When I decided to join Southampton, I told myself that I was gambling with my life, I believed in Master Huan, I believed in the Saints, and I believed that we could create glory together."

"Four years later, I'm standing here, and I'm proud because I did it!"

"I'm proud because I chose the saints in the first place!"

Speaking of this, Ibrahimovich suddenly pointed at Yang Huan and said with a smile: "Young Master Huan, I can have today, all thanks to you, I sincerely hope that my career can end as a saint, because you said that a saint for a day, a saint for life!" ”

With that, Ibrahimovic slowly took two steps back and bowed deeply downward.

The scene immediately burst into thunderous applause, and even many people were infected by this scene.