Chapter 51: European Footballer of the Year (1)

Back in London, Chelsea began preparing for the trip to Charlton Athletic, which will be the last game that Ray will be able to play in before the Ballon d'Or. However, Lao Lei couldn't prepare for the game with peace of mind, because at this time, almost the entire media in England was chasing and intercepting him. UEFA had already announced a few days ago that they had entered the final top five, and it was no surprise that Lao Lei was on the list. As the biggest favorite in this selection, almost all reporters wanted to interview Lao Lei and ask him about his opinions.

At present, the English media, except for those who are biased towards Liverpool, are almost all shouting for Lao Lei, especially the media in London, which is constantly hyping up this topic. In fact, it's no wonder that the English media is too exaggerated, who teaches the Ballon d'Or has never had a relationship with the English league. From the Ballon d'Or in all, only five times in total have been awarded to players who have played in the English league. Among them, there is also the outlier of Keegan, although he won the championship in Liverpool, but in fact won this award in Hamburg, Germany. This is an embarrassing record for the proud Englishman.

Regarding the frenzy of the English media, Lao Lei, who has long been aware of it, naturally made a gesture of talking to people and talking nonsense, and he said a lot of nonsense. He didn't want to be blamed by Ernaux, if the news that he had won the Golden Globe was leaked at this time, it would be a huge blow to the upcoming awards ceremony, and the awards ceremony without any suspense could attract attention was really limited.

On the day of the match with Charlton, Lao Lei said some nonsense again, and only then was he in the disgruntled eyes of the media. calmly walked into the court. "Reima, haven't you heard anything?" In the locker room. Drogba, who was sitting next to Lao Lei, couldn't resist his curiosity. Asked. It's no secret that the Golden Globes have a habit of notifying the winners in advance. Considering the possibility of Lao Lei's extremely high award, coupled with Lao Lei's abnormal appearance a few days ago, all Chelsea players couldn't help but mutter, and there was a faint guess in their hearts. But every time they asked him, they were all perfunctory and perfunctory by Lao Lei, and they didn't get a definite positive answer.

And this time, it's still the case. "Message? What's the news? Didier, do you have your wife again? Congratulations! Congratulations! This answer directly forced Drogba's words that he was about to blurt out back into his stomach. Looking at the depressed Drogba, although Lao Lei made an indifferent gesture on the surface, he was actually too happy in his heart. For the embarrassing little misunderstanding between Drogba and him, Old Ray has always remembered it. Thinking about the "ridicule" he received from his Chelsea teammates during that time, Lao Lei felt a thrill of revenge at this time.

Lao Lei's answer also disappointed the Chelsea players who were silently paying attention around him. Although I have confirmed my guess in my heart. But this feeling of not receiving a positive response made them depressed, as if a cat's paw had been scratching their hearts. Everyone gave each other a pair of colors, reaffirming that they had agreed with each other to be after the awards. The decision to make Lao Lei bleed profusely. If you hurt your feelings, you have to make up for it with food.

After a while, "the game is about to begin." The players from both sides are ready to go, and Charlton Athletic's home game against Chelsea in the 15th round of the Premier League is about to begin. The goal of this game Charlton. It's like their head coach said before the game, keep the flat first. And Chelsea. Jose Mourinho is still using a rotation of half main and half substitutes, and it looks like he is preparing for the scary Christmas schedule ahead. The biggest attraction of this game is what kind of performance Remayr can give to the quasi-European footballer man. With the Ballon d'Or ceremony taking place in midweek, it is unclear if Remaier will be able to get his wish and become the first European Footballer of the Year in Chelsea history. Before the game, the commentators were also very interested in talking about the upcoming Ballon d'Or ceremony.

However, Charlton Athletic is not going to surrender lightly to the new European footballer of the year, even if they are underdogs in the Premier League. On their home turf, Charlton Athletic's attacking prowess was put to the test by using a dense defence. In this game, Charlton adopted a defensive strategy of shrinking the box, massing heavy forces in the middle and in the box in front of the box, not giving Chelsea the opportunity to penetrate their heart lightly.

Although such a defensive strategy was to almost let go of two wings, it was a smart decision. It is better to cut off one of its fingers than to hurt its ten fingers. Sometimes, if you want to do too much, you won't be able to do any of them. Charlton are self-aware of Chelsea's attacking firepower and know they can't do a complete lockdown. That being the case, they opted to seal off the front, forcing Chelsea to attack with long-range shots or high balls. If Chelsea scored through these two means, then Charlton would admit it, after all, it was a normal thing for them to lose to Chelsea, and they did not have any pressure in their hearts.

The defensive strategy was successful, with Chelsea's attack failing to pose enough threat to Charlton Athletic for some time after the opening kick-off. In the penalty area, the tall Charlton players caused huge problems for Drogba and others to compete for the top. On the periphery, it was clear that Frank Lampard and the others were not very good on their feet today, and several long-range attempts were made with anti-aircraft guns, which did not threaten Charlton's goal.

Such an on-field situation is intolerable for Lao Lei, who is determined to win. After the 13th minute of the first half, Lao Lei began to suddenly increase his attacking intensity, frequently cutting forward to the front of Charlton's penalty area. After that, Lao Lei tried several long-range shots in a row. Obviously, the new European Footballer of the Year is in good shape today, and a few powerful long-range shots are just slightly off, and it can be seen that Lao Lei is adjusting his form one by one, and Charlton's defense has begun to smell the coming crisis.

In the 24th minute of the first half, "Frank, here, left!" Lao Lei shouted as he quickly plugged in from the back. Frank Lampard, who was at the edge of the penalty area, heard the shouts of the elder Thunder and understood it and gently tapped the football at his feet. Push to the side, like a gunner. After the cannon is loaded, all that remains is fire. Lao Lei swung his right leg with all his might. Like a whip, he whipped the soccer ball that came to him. With a "bang", the football turned out to be an obvious deformation in a short moment. After flying, the football barely spun at all, like a cannonball out of the chamber, leaving only a vague shadow in the eyes of everyone.

This long-range shot, although the angle is not particularly tricky, but the speed is too fast. Charlton's goalkeeper didn't have time to make any savings. I could only watch as the football flew into my door from my right, bringing up a surging white wave. This is a shot with a very violent aesthetic, without the roundness and grace of the Pei arc, but with explosive power and speed, like a cheetah rushing to hunt on the savannah, full of primitive violent beauty.

“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!! World Wave! Super World Wave!! It's the aesthetics of violence! Absolute Aesthetics of Violence!! Looking at Charlie's eyes, he should be glad that he didn't touch the football, he should definitely be glad! No matter what era it is. These are absolute top long-range shots. This is simply a Tomahawk cruise missile, fast, ruthless, accurate!! My God. It's unbelievable! I think all Charlton Athletic players should be thankful that they are not in the way of football. Otherwise, I believe. Charlton's team doctor should have been in at the airport by this time. It's really like a long-range shot that only Godzilla can propose, absolutely violent! Absolutely direct!! ”

looked at the old thunder who was running passionately in the field to celebrate. Charlton fans also did not boo. At this time, they were all still immersed in the shock of the earth-shattering heavy cannon just now, and such a shot was not often seen. The visual shock brought by the white shadow of extreme speed is far from over. Even Charlton's players had nothing to say about the goal. They didn't make any mistakes, they had already done their best, but in the face of this fairy ball-level world wave, no one could do anything about it.

For this powerful long-range shot, even Lao Lei himself was a little surprised. He could feel that it was probably the most powerful and fastest long-range shot of his career so far. Excited and unbearable, he directly used both hands to make a bodybuilder posture, bulging the jersey and showing the muscle lines perfectly. Such a strong posture made Lao Lei win the passionate cheers of a large number of female fans, and also made the two women who watched the live broadcast scold "sluts".

After that goal, the game began to enter Chelsea's full orbit and play smoothly. 2:0 became the final score of this game. In the 64th minute of the second half, after Lao Lei was substituted, he was full of excitement and took off his shirt directly and threw it to Charlton fans. This move made many on-site reporters prepare to watch the excitement, and they were looking forward to Charlton fans throwing the jersey back to Lao Lei and smashing the face of the most popular star.

However, they were clearly disappointed. Lao Ray's jersey, among Charlton fans, caused a rush of frenzy. Although they are not Chelsea fans, that doesn't stop them from appreciating Ray's skills and becoming his personal fans. Obviously, today, Old Ray's bombardment has conquered the Charlton fans at the Valley Stadium.

For such a situation, Lao Lei is naturally comfortable in his heart. Although he enjoys the confrontation with fans of other teams, if he is once in a while, Lao Lei said that he can accept it.

In the EFL Cup in midweek, Chelsea defeated Fulham 2-1 away and successfully advanced to the semi-finals, Lao Lei and Keira, Mourinho and others, together with Abu, took a special plane to Paris arranged by Abu.

A day later, in the afternoon of the French Football magazine, in the office building of the team newspaper group, the award ceremony of the '04 European Ballon d'Or was about to begin.

Fans all over the world set their sights on this day.

The figures of European and world football also gathered here on this day.

And Lao Lei will also be officially crowned on the throne! (To be continued......)