Author: Bei Guoxia

Personal honors in football were not mentioned before, but now, the most important ones are only three individual awards, UEFA European Player of the Year, FIFA World Player of the Year and French Football's Ballon d'Or! And these three

Among the awards, a topic that has been discussed by football circles and fans is which award is more important, the Ballon d'Or or the World Footballer.

The World Footballer award was formerly the "World's Best Player" selection jointly organized by FIFA and the International Football Historical Statistics Federation. It was founded in 1982. In 1991, FIFA began to operate the award independently and also changed its name.

He is the "World Footballer of the Year". Generally speaking, the "World Footballer of the Year" refers to the award after the restructuring in 1991.

The Golden Globe Awards have a longer history. The Golden Globe Awards have been selected since 1956.

Therefore, many people think that the Golden Globe Award has a longer history and carries more weight.

However, there are also different opinions that since 1991, the World Footballer has been independently operated by FIFA, while the main operating body of the Golden Globe Award is the "France Football" magazine under the French media "Team". Compared with the latter

, obviously FIFA is more authoritative and fair.

Although FIFA has also caused many scandals, its impartiality is still much stronger than that of a newspaper. This is the view of one type of person.

Whether it is the "World's Best Player" in 1986 or the "World Footballer" in 1991, the selection scope initially focuses on the whole world. Although European players have the most awards, followed by South American players, so far there has not been any

Players from other regions won the award, but to be fair, it is true that the level of football in these two regions is higher. But having said that, the selection scope of the World Footballer Award from the beginning is players from all over the world, at least it seems to be more open

of awards.

The Ballon d'Or award only selected European players from 1956 to 1994. In 1995, it began to expand the selection scope to all players who played in the leagues of UEFA member countries. In 2007, it was opened to all players in the world.

All professional players in the league. So before 2007, the Ballon d'Or was also known as "European Footballer".

Compared with the Golden Globe Award, the selection scope of the World Footballer is wider, but later the Golden Globe Award was also broadened to the world scope. At present, the scope of both selections is the whole world.

Next is the difference in rules.

The selection rules for World Footballer have gone through three changes. When it was first established in 1991, the voting was conducted by the national team coaches who are members of FIFA. Each coach has 3 votes, but he cannot vote for the players of his own national team.

In 2004, the selection rules for the World Footballer were changed. Each national team and captain had the right to vote. They enjoyed 80% of the votes, and the remaining 20% ​​was in the hands of the International Professional Players Union.

In 2016, the coaches and captains of each national team only had 25% of the votes, adding up to 50%. More than 200 media outlets around the world had 25% of the votes, and the remaining 25% went to fans around the world.

In this way, the FIFA World Player of the Year selection rules are very diversified, at least judging from the votes, they combine the opinions of many parties.

Although the selection rules of the Golden Globe Awards have changed several times, they are always in the hands of the media.

Before 2007, only the judges invited by the organizers of "France Football" had votes, and almost all the judges came from major European media. After 2007, all countries that entered the World Cup finals had voting rights, but the judges were still composed of

It is composed of journalists. So after 2007, China, which has entered the World Cup, also has journalists who can vote. He is Luo Ming, the reporter of Football Monthly.

But no matter how it is reformed, the voting rights for the Golden Globe Awards are always in the hands of reporters. In other words, the Golden Globe Awards are an award selected by the media.

Although it seems now that both awards are top individual awards in the football world, it seems difficult to tell which one is stronger and which one carries more weight.

But in 2010, FIFA took the initiative to find Team News to discuss the merger.

The Ballon d'Or and World Footballer were briefly merged. Between 2010 and 2015, the two parties cooperated to hold 6 selections, of which Messi won 4 times and Cristiano Ronaldo won 2 times. However, later, due to the operating philosophy and selection of the two parties,

The differences in rules are ultimately divided.

The award name at that time was called the FIFA Ballon d'Or.

Although the FIFA World Player of the Year selection method and voting method are more reasonable, in the world of football, it is obvious that the Ballon d'Or Award carries more weight.

But now, although the weight of the World Footballer is slightly lower than that of the Ballon d'Or, the difference between the two is not far.

The awards ceremony on September 24 is just around the corner. Lin Kedi, Ten Hag, De Ligt and De Jong traveled to Zurich, Switzerland.

This time, CCTV Sports also sent reporters to the scene in Zurich, Switzerland, which shows how seriously they attach importance to it.

However, at the UEFA awards ceremony just one month ago, no domestic media reporters were sent to the scene.

In fact, the main reason is not that the UEFA European Player of the Year is not important, of course it is. After Lin Kedi won this award, the Best Player of the Year is even more important.

The main reason was that although all the odds showed that Lin Ke was in the lead at that time, it was not certain after all, because Messi was also very popular at that time, so CCTV Sports naturally chose to be conservative and did not go to the scene for the sake of safety.

Now it seems that this is a bit too conservative.

After the previous mistakes and misjudgments, not only CCTV in China sent people to the awards ceremony in Zurich, Switzerland, but basically all the reputable sports media sent people to come.

Lin Kedi arrived in Zurich, Switzerland at noon on the 23rd.

In the afternoon, I received an interview invitation from CCTV.

Lin Kedi originally wanted to take a rest, but after thinking about it, he accepted the invitation.

Ali also came to Zurich, Switzerland with him.

Ali went to contact CCTV and arranged a time and place for the interview.

Finally, it was set at 3 p.m. in Lin Kedi’s room.

Before the interview, Lin Kedi called his parents at around 1 o'clock, and then went to the restaurant to have some food.

While eating in the restaurant, I met Van Dyke.

"Virgil! Are you here too?"

"This is the hotel reserved for us by FIFA. All three of our candidates should be here, so there's nothing strange about it."

"I mean, you eat so late too?"

"Oh - I was on the phone in the room just now."

“The steak here is okay, you can try it.”

"Really? Thank you for your recommendation."

After all, Lin Kedi and Van Dyke were not friends, so after being polite, Lin Kedi went directly back to the hotel room.
Chapter completed!