Chapter 354 He surpassed Ronaldo!
As is customary, the issue of French Football magazine that announces the winner of the European Ballon d'Or each year will include a commentary article written by the magazine's editor-in-chief, the topic of which is the selection process for that year's European Ballon d'Or and comments on the winners.
This year is no exception.
Gerard Hernault, current editor-in-chief of France Football magazine and chairman of the European Golden Ball Award jury, wrote an article in the newly published France Football magazine, commenting on the winner Su Dong.
Salute to the youngest Ballon d'Or winner ever!
In this article, Elno first talked about the history of the European Golden Ball Award, emphasizing the expansion in 1995, which was open to all players from all continents playing in Europe. This was to avoid regrets like Maradona and Romario, who spent the glorious years of their careers in European football but did not receive recognition from the Golden Ball Award.
At the same time, he also mentioned the changes brought about by the dramatic changes in Eastern Europe, television broadcasting rights, and the Bosman Act. Among them, he implicitly mentioned the phenomenon of vote clustering in Eastern Europe, which has attracted much attention from the outside world. He feels it is necessary to optimize voting and mechanisms.
Not only that, Elno also mentioned the European Cup year.
In the history of the European Golden Ball Award, every European Cup year, the Golden Ball Award is mostly awarded to players with outstanding performance in the European Cup, especially in recent years.
For example, Rummenigge in 1980, Platini in 1984, Van Basten in 1988 and 1992, Sammer in 1996, and Figo in 2000 all performed very well in the European Cup.
"This seems to have brought an implicit rule to the outside world, that is, in the European Cup year, the winners must be those players who participated in the European Cup and performed very well."
Elno said that this year's European Cup is different from previous years.
"Many players who performed well at their club level made serious mistakes or performed poorly at the European Championship."
Elnor believes that the Greeks' victory created a miracle, but it also subverted the selection of this year's European Golden Ball Award.
"As the favorites, Deco and Henry both performed very well in their clubs. If they had put in a convincing performance in the European Cup, I believe they would have been strong contenders, but they were defeated by the Greeks one after another."
Elnor also mentioned Ronaldinho, believing that the Brazilian's failure to participate in the European Championships and win any championship titles made him unable to win awards despite his excellent performances for the club.
Not only that, Elno also hinted that in the second half of the new season, with the joining of Su Dong, Ronaldinho's importance in the Barcelona team has been greatly reduced and is far less important than last season.
Even in terms of performance, Ronaldinho is up and down, not as stable and important as Su Dong.
Shevchenko has two championship titles and is Serie A's top scorer, which is undoubtedly convincing. He also led Ukraine to a good performance in the World Cup qualifiers, which won him more votes in Eastern Europe.
Elano said that the first rule for the Ballon d'Or selection is the overall performance of the players that year.
We must consider both individual and collective performance.
He believes that Su Dong is the best in both aspects and is also the most convincing player.
"He helped Valencia win the two most important championship trophies, La Liga and the Champions League. At the same time, with 35 goals, he broke Ronaldo's La Liga record and won the La Liga Golden Boot and the European Golden Boot. He is the youngest Golden Boot winner in history."
Elno believes that Ronaldo was not in a major tournament year that year, so there was not much suspense about his winning the award. However, this year Su Dong's performance was even better, which made his winning, although accompanied by some controversy, more valuable.
"More importantly, Su Dong is the first Asian player to win the Ballon d'Or and the first Chinese player to win the award."
"This in itself is enough to tell the world that the Ballon d'Or is not just Europe's Ballon d'Or, it is the world's Ballon d'Or, the Ballon d'Or for all football players in the world!"
Elno said that as a genius from a weak football country, Sudong took one step at a time, from Portugal to Spain, from Sporting Lisbon to Valencia to Barcelona. He showed amazing performance in every team and demonstrated surprising growth and progress.
"He is the youngest Ballon d'Or winner ever, but we have reason to believe that he has the chance to become the greatest Ballon d'Or winner ever!"
"Let us salute the youngest Ballon d'Or winner ever!"
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Along with Elano's article and the cover of French Football magazine, Su Dong held up the Golden Ball Award and spread to every corner of the world overnight.
The Catalan media gave overwhelming praise to the fifth Ballon d'Or winner in Barcelona's history, believing that Su Dong was able to win the European Ballon d'Or at the age of 20 and was definitely the best young player in Barcelona's history. At the same time, they firmly believed that he could lead the Dream Team II to success and reach the pinnacle of glory.
Mundo Deportivo even wrote an article disclosing the voting details of the Ballon d'Or, believing that Su Dong won very narrowly, but relying on his outstanding performance in the past year and a stream of goals, he finally grabbed the Ballon d'Or in his hands.
"The shady dealings, the clique... everything was vulnerable in front of Su Dong's goal!"
While congratulating Su Dong on his award, Daily Sports also looks forward to him winning the award again at the upcoming FIFA Awards Ceremony at the Zurich Opera House and becoming the youngest World Footballer of the Year in history.
"There is no doubt that Su Dong will become the world's top superstar this year!"
The Vanguard believes that signing Sudon is the wisest decision Barcelona has made in the past few seasons. It means that Barcelona will not have to worry about the striker line in the next ten years. With the addition of players such as Ronaldinho, Iniesta, Xavi, Deco and Messi, Barcelona will dominate European football.
"We have every reason to believe that in the next few years, the Dream Team II will sweep across Europe!"
Cruyff once again wrote a column, praising Su Dong for winning the award and believing that he was well-deserved. However, the Barcelona godfather also warned Su Dong that after winning the Golden Ball, he needed to guard against arrogance and impatience and continue to work hard.
"Many winners will experience a significant decline in their competitive form after winning the award. This is a decline after the peak and is a normal phenomenon. But for Su Dong, he is too young, only 20 years old. He must overcome this and continue to maintain the upward trend and strive to raise his career to a whole new level."
"We have every reason to believe that after becoming the youngest Ballon d'Or winner ever, Su Dong has the chance to become the greatest player of all time. I hope he can keep working hard!"
Finally, Cruyff also made an appeal, hoping again that Barcelona could reduce its offensive firepower points and concentrate resources to support Sudong, which would make Sudong better and make Barcelona more threatening.
Both AS and Marca are newspapers that favor Real Madrid and have always ignored Barcelona, but this time they gave Su Dong rare high praise, believing that Su Dong deserved the award.
AS even said bitterly that Real Madrid missed out on Sudong half a year ago, which will definitely become a regret for Florentino.
"How I wish Florentino could reproduce his magical skills from four years ago and make the stands of Camp Nou throw pig heads again!"
Marca revealed that the team that Laporta proposed to sign Su Dong with double the transfer fee was actually Real Madrid. Because looking at the European football scene, only the wealthy Real Madrid has the courage to pay a sky-high price of 160 million euros to sign Su Dong.
"But unfortunately, Barcelona didn't dare to accept Real Madrid's offer!"
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When the news of Su Dong's winning the award reached back to Asia, it immediately caused a huge response throughout the region.
Japan and South Korea rushed to celebrate, feeling extremely honored that a Ballon d'Or winner had been born in Asia.
Many Japanese and Korean media reported on Su Dong's Asian tour with Barcelona this summer and congratulated him on winning the Golden Ball. They also believed that this was not only an honor for Su Dong personally, but also the pride of all Asians.
In China, from authoritative newspapers and national television stations to the Internet and street tabloids, all were reporting crazily on Su Dong's award, believing that it was the pride of all Asians and even more so the pride of the Chinese people.
The national television station even spent a full five minutes in the prime-time news the next evening to report the news that Su Dong had won the Golden Ball Award, and played some highlights of Su Dong's wonderful performance in the European league.
In the news, the national television station gave Su Dong a very high evaluation and congratulated him on becoming the youngest Ballon d'Or winner in history, the first Asian player to win the Ballon d'Or, and the first Chinese player.
At the same time, we also call on all domestic football players and all young people in the country to learn from Su Dong and learn his spirit of tenacious struggle and perseverance!
"We hope that in the next ten or twenty years, domestic football can cultivate more Su Dong!"
In the news, the national television station also broadcast Su Dong returning to Barcelona with the Golden Ball. Thousands of Barcelona fans spontaneously went to the airport to greet him. The scene was almost out of control, indicating that Su Dong had become a hero of the city of Barcelona!
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Overnight, Su Dong won the Golden Globe Award, like a whirlwind, quickly sweeping across every corner of the earth.
Everywhere news and information could reach, everyone heard the news.
Even if he is not a football fan, at least he has heard of Su Dong and knows that there is such a person.
He surpassed Ronaldo that year! In the media and fans around the world, the topic of discussion is whether Su Dong can continue his record of winning the Ballon d'Or at the upcoming FIFA Awards Ceremony held at the Zurich Opera House.
Having already won the Ballon d'Or, if he wins the FIFA World Footballer of the Year award again and wins both supreme awards, Su Dong will undoubtedly reach a higher level.
Is this possible?
Woohoo, gentlemen, please have pity on my fragile heart and don't ask me to update more! The guests are sitting in the living room, but I pretend not to know and hide in the room to type. Can you believe it?
(End of this chapter)
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