Although Zhou Yi was able to become the final candidate three and had created the history of Chinese football and even Asian football, everyone still hoped that he could win the highest honor.

Many people even thought that this is the case - Zhou Yi's performance last season was so amazing. He led the team to the Bundesliga championship in honor, completed three consecutive league championships, and even won the Big Ear Cup in the Champions League.

Such amazing achievements and blinding achievements are the best opportunity in Zhou Yi's career. This is not the European Cup or World Cup year. If he cannot win the award this time, then what do you know when will he have to wait for the next time?

In fact, to put it bluntly, the majority of Chinese fans are still a little unconfident about Zhou Yi. Although Zhou Yi is still very young, everyone always thinks that being able to enter the final list this time is like having luck. Such good luck may not always favor Zhou Yi.

Since it appears, you should catch it, otherwise there will be no store after passing through this village.

But reality is cruel, not that if you get enough honors, you will definitely win the award.

Many people have such concerns, and the reason they have such concerns is that there have been similar precedents before.

The 2010 FIFA Golden Ball Awards was the first year of the merger of FIFA and the French Football Magazine, and that year was also the year of the World Cup.

The final three-man list for the FIFA Golden Ball Awards that year were Iniesta, Xavi and Messi.

There is no need to look at the final result. Just look at the three-person shortlist. Anyone who truly understands football can see the problem, because in this list of only the top three in the voting stage can enter the final candidates, Dutch midfielder and Inter Milan core Sneider are not there!

In the European club competition that year, Inter Milan became the biggest winner. The team led by Mourinho won the Serie A championship, the Italian Cup and the Champions League, becoming the first triple-champion in Serie A history. Sneider, the core of the team, is the key figure in the team's triple-championship, and his performance is very excellent. In the awards of the club's best player in the middle of the year, Sneider beats Barcelona's Xavi and Bayern Munich's Dutch compatriot Robben to become the best midfielder.

In the national team competition that year, Sneider's good form continued. He and Robben led the Dutch national team to pass the hurdles in the South Africa World Cup and reached the World Cup final again after the 1978 World Cup in Germany. This was the best result of the Dutch national team in the World Cup after 32 years. Especially when facing the championship-winning Brazil team, Sneider's performance was perfect. When Brazil led the lead in the first half and the situation was very good, Sneider stood up and scored two goals to complete the reversal and turnaround against Brazil, sending Kaka back to Brazil, and he reached the finals all the way.

In the final, the Netherlands and Spain were entangled in overtime before they were finally defeated by Iniesta's goal. But despite this, Sneider's performance in that World Cup was perfect. Five goals and one assist, Sneider used such data to tell everyone that he was the core and leader of the Dutch national team. He also won the Silver Ball and Bronze Boot Award in that World Cup.

The club's honors and the national team's performance are excellent. This performance is probably not inferior to Zhou Yi, because with the bonus of the national team competition, it may be more convincing than Zhou Yi's results.

But even such an outstanding player, at the peak of his career, could not even enter the top three selected that year... Isn't this funny?

The FIFA Golden Ball Award was a merger of the former World Footballer and the "French Football" Golden Ball Awards. The voting method of the two is simply summed up, but the weight is not considered. The voting method of the reporter of the "French Football" Golden Ball Awards is so simple and the voting method of the head coach + captain of the FIFA World Footballer is so simple. However, the number of head coaches and captains of the national team is obviously more than that of the media reporters, so the number of votes of the head coaches and captains of the national team will be much higher than that of the reporters, and their choice will determine the final result. The voting of journalists, known for their authority, becomes a foil and a foil.

During the voting session, it can be seen that Sneider, who has the highest turnout rate of journalists, received 7.7% of journalists' votes, but Sneider was not as good as the top three competitors in the national team captain and head coach turnout rate, which were 3.79% and 3.

In terms of the final total vote rate, Sneijder ranked fourth by 14.48%. What about Messi, who ranked first in this category? The total vote rate is as high as 22.65%, but the media's vote rate is indeed the lowest among the top four - 4.38%.

He relied on the votes of the national team captain and the national team head coach, 8.55% and 9.72% respectively, which was significantly ahead of the remaining three.

FIFA's voting method has always been criticized as unprofessional, which is in sharp contrast to the Golden Globe voting method of "French Football" back then.

Some people may find it strange that they are all at the level of national team head coach and captain, so why are they unprofessional?

The professionalism of players is reflected in their football skills, but not necessarily in their comprehensive understanding of football.

It can be said that the captain of a national team may not be as good as a Chinese fan who cannot even play the ball.

Not to mention the head coaches and captains of small and weak countries. For example, how much do you expect the head coaches and captains of Tonga's national team to know about world football? Their football intelligence may rely more on media reports, so the stars who can often appear on the media are naturally the people they are most familiar with, such as world-class superstars like Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

When they needed to vote, they had no idea about other candidates and only chose names that they looked familiar to. Of course, people like Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo took advantage.

FIFA now has 209 member states, and the head coach and captain of the national team of each member state have the right to vote, which is equivalent to 418 voting qualifications. What about the media judges at the Golden Globe Awards? Only 53 authoritative media are eligible to vote.

Even if all the fifty-three media reporters chose Sneijder, they would not be able to compete with 418 votes for Messi.

So under such strange voting rules, Sneider, the best player in 2010, was so shameless that he didn't even enter the top three...

Before the final result was released, the top three alone caused great controversy and doubts.

When the final result was released, it made almost all media dissatisfied - you said Sneijder did not enter the top three and was not qualified to participate in the final competition, then okay. Let's look at the remaining three people, Xavi or Iniesta, who led the Spanish national team to the World Cup championship, should be more likely than Messi to win the award, right?

But not, Messi won the final FIFA Golden Ball Award!

When the result was announced, Messi was surprised and surprised himself - he really didn't feel that he was qualified to win the award.

In the World Cup year, the performance in the World Cup is of high reference value. Messi's performance in the World Cup is not comparable to Xavi and Iniesta. He did not score a goal in the South Africa World Cup, and the Argentine national team he led was also slaughtered by the German team. How can such a performance be worthy of the Golden Ball?

But who said he is the most popular world-class star in the media in recent years, and is even called the third king of football?

The media has a high exposure and the name appears frequently in various reports. Anyone who knows football knows that Messi, and he takes advantage of the vote...

In this way, Messi controversially won the highest award in the player's personal honor that year, the FIFA Golden Ball Award.

Since there is no so-called European Golden Ball Awards and FIFA competition, Messi was the one who stood at the top of the world that year.

This is certainly unfair. Messi's strength is of course one of the best players in the world, but with his performance in 2010, he should not surpass Sneijder and win this award.

But many years later, when people search for the winners of the 2010 Golden Globes, they only see Messi's name, and many people may not know the story behind it. They will naturally think that Messi won the Golden Globes that year because he performed the best that year and was officially recognized.

Such a thing can happen to Sneider, a core player of the football powerhouse Netherlands. Why can't it happen to Zhou Yi, a core player of the Chinese team of the football powerhouse in three years?

You know, Sneijder won the triple crown, while Zhou Yi was not even a triple crown.

The only thing they can hope for is the authority and justice of the European Sports Media League journalists, hoping that they can make choices that match their professional evaluation and authoritative status.

But some people are worried that at this critical moment, will there be a possibility of racial discrimination? Racial discrimination on the football field has always been very serious. In the media dominated by European and Americans, there are some such problems. They only have more and less prejudice against China. Think about the London Olympics in the past year, which is simply a teaching case of European and American media discrimination against Chinese sports.

Will there be any reporter who believes that Chinese players do not deserve this honor and do not want to see any Chinese players get a share of the football program, but choose to vote for Messi or Ribery?

When the results are about to be released, Chinese fans who have been inferior in the football world for a long time are particularly sensitive and fragile...
Chapter completed!